FORMER Olympian Tatiana Grigorieva is used to strict diets and exercise from her days competing in pole vault, but as a retired athlete things are a lot more relaxed. But now, the mum-of-two is on a self-imposed alcohol ban for the month of October — something she said wouldn’t be…
TATIANA Grigorieva, the glamorous Australian pole vaulter, will retire from the sport even though she finished last year ranked in the top 10 in the world. The 31-year-old’s toned, tattooed physique may have helped in the fame game but it was her gutsy competitive streak that made her one of…
Australian athletics star Tatiana Grigorieva is “staggered” by the theft of her entire sporting medal collection. The pole vaulter’s Olympic, Commonwealth and world championship medals were among the “irreplaceable sentimental items” stored in a safe stolen from business premises at Tingalpa in Brisbane. Thieves also took an Australian flag bearing…
Ordinarily, for an 18-year-old girl stepping into her first Olympics, it would be an overwhelming moment of awe and splendour. While there might be some of those emotions for Liz Parnov, there is also a sense of expectation, of a teenager stepping through the natural process of life, such as…
