MOSCOW, November 6 (R-Sport) – Russia’s anti-doping agency said Tuesday it has suspended a pole vaulter after he tested positive for a banned substance.Ivan Gertlein, who won team bronze at the Russian championships in Sochi this year, failed a drugs test on October 15, Rusada said in a statement.”Gertlein has…
Double Olympic pole vault champion, Yelena Isinbayeva, announced yesterday her intention not only to continue to Rio 2016 but her determination to win her third gold. Isinbayeva was speaking to a group of high school children in St Petersburg on Monday about life after sport, but she made it clear…
London: Double Olympic champion Yelena Isinbayeva is to take a break from sport to have a child before she considers a comeback for the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, the Russian pole vault queen said Tuesday. Isinbayeva, 30, won the bronze medal at the London Olympics Monday, and took it…
Moscow – Russia’s pole vault world record holder Yelena Isinbayeva is confident of soaring to new heights at the Olympics after suffering a series of setbacks in the last three seasons. Isinbayeva heads to London boosted by gold in the 2012 World Indoor Championships and happy she has regained her…
KIEV (Reuters) – Six-times world pole vault champion Sergei Bubka has told Reuters he hopes the success of Euro 2012 will help bring the Olympic Games to Ukraine. Bubka, president of the Ukrainian Olympic committee, spoke passionately about the Ukrainian team’s achievements and the social importance of sport in the politically troubled…
After falling out of love with the pole vault, Yelena Isinbayeva is back at the peak of her powers as she bids to become the first female track and field athlete to win three successive Olympic golds in what is likely to be her last Games. The peerless Russian, with 28…
Russia’s double Olympic gold medallist Yelena Isinbaeva nearly quit the sport but she’s expected to make a strong challenge at London 2012. At the start of the year, many commentators predicted that the Russian pole vault champion Yelena Isinbaeva would retire because of a string of setbacks, notably injuries and…
AN INTERVIEW WITH JENN STUCZYNSKI Cyphers, L. (2012). AN INTERVIEW WITH JENN STUCZYNSKI. Retrieved from http://sports.espn.go.com/espnmag/story?id=3548240 Just trying to set the record straight. Jenn Stuczynski wants to set the record straight. The American silver medalist in the pole vault is not a trash talker, as the Russians seem to believe. She’s not…
