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I bet she is faster than all the other girl pole vaulters on her team, and I bet she jumps higher than them too ...she does! my daughter is extremely fast AND a good vaulter, except she's nowhere near as good as the terribly unathletic guys on her team the para-phrasing alters my intent. She consis...

You are making the mistake of confusing pole vault with a math problem. Sure you can plug in speed, height, weight and get some great numbers but without technique, they are irrelevant....and no matter how co-ordinated, flexible, strong the former sprinter/aspirant pole vaulter is, they still need h...

Any non-american internet streams for the pole vault final? I found this one: http://linkupvideos.com/watch/2c237acf34af9f8fe3ee/2012-IAAF-World-Indoor-Championships-Athletics-Live-Stream (streams British Eurosports...works better from my direct cable connection than from my Wi-fi). Alana who? Has ...

My Istanbul predictions are quite different:

(1) Yelena Isinbayeva
(2) Holly Bleasdale
(3) Yarisley Silva

(and Alana Boyd a good chance to sneak with one of the medals).

....hopefully the last post about this! :-)

...at the most recent ANSW event, last Thursday night, athletes were not stopped doing drills with their poles prior to jumps! (and a number of athletes got pb's).

but that this rule will not be implemented in a way that will really affect athletes I wish your sources would tell ANSW officials! :-) At state junior and youth champs last weekend, they were literally not allowed to touch their poles between jumps. My daughter asked the officials and suggested th...

I think it would be helpful if the pole vault community internationally contacted their national technical officer to note their concern/ask for an interpretation.

This will let the IAAF technical officials know how problematic this is.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-02-08/struggling-hooker-needs-breathing-space2c-says-official/3818744?section=sport Struggling Hooker needs breathing space, says official Posted February 08, 2012 17:00:59 Olympic champion pole vaulter Steve Hooker is battling to work through "technical issues&q...

I got a positive response from Athletics Australia's (AA) chief technical officer (though understandably non-committal at this stage). My daughter's coach tells me there are now a number of emails between Australia's top PV coaches and AA technical officials. It will be apparently be discussed at th...

It is being enforced such that the pole is not allowed to be picked up before an attempt is made. .....last weekend, 2 'no heights' from my daughter's training squad were by athletes whose first height was 45min or more after the comp began.....so at least that time since picking up the pole. I am e...

I am not sure if this the appropriate forum....but would be interested in views/interpretations of the new IAAF rule that forbids the use of the pole for 'practice' after a competition has begun. see: http://www.iaaf.org/mm/Document/06/28/26/62826_PDF_English.pdf Page 168, point (b), below was added...

...was from 8 steps with swirling winds (the wind readings from the sprints, they varied from -3.6 to +1.5m/s).

He elected not to continue at 5.15.

...and his clearances were WAY over.