Athens Grand Prix...

[patchdoggydogg]

Should be starting soon. It's on delay in the US on wcsn.com, but someone posted this link on the T&FN site:

http://www2.myp2p.eu/broadcast.php?matc ... art=sports

Here's the start list:

Athens Grand Prix Athína (Olympic Stadium) (GRE) - Sunday, Jul 13, 2008
Pole Vault - M
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Entry list - Men - Pole Vault Athlete Nat Giuseppe Gibilisco ITA
Alhaji Jeng SWE
Stávros Kouroupákis GRE
Timothy Mack USA
Maksym Mazuryk UKR
Derek Miles USA
Igor Pavlov RUS
Kevin Rans BEL
Nikólaos Sidihákis GRE
Tommy Skipper USA
Brad Walker USA
Denys Yurchenko UKR

[patchdoggydogg]

So far from what's been shown on Eurosport, Skipper has a miss @ 565, as does Yurchenko.

[patchdoggydogg]

Mazuryk just cleared 570; Gibilisco went out at 555, according to the Eurosport commentator (sounds like Martin Gillingham)

[patchdoggydogg]

Walker just cleared 570--nice Mohawk, Brad!

[patchdoggydogg]

Walker cleared 590 on his second attempt...passed @580. Watching it on the french Eurosport feed, as the english feed is showing snooker.

[patchdoggydogg]

Walker just bailed on an attempt...not sure if it was 595 or 600, as the graphic didn't come up.

[patchdoggydogg]

Walker wins at 590...turns out his misses were at 606.

Pavlov 2nd @ 575; Miles & Schulze tied for third @ 570.

Complete results @ http://www.tsiklitiria.org/results/res2 ... i&type=res

[annagb]

I don't know if this could be interesting, but this was the second competition for Gibilisco (in the first he had no measure). And now with this 5,55m he is qualified for Olympic Games: the Italian rule says that since he jumped the A standard last year, it is sufficient for him to jump the B standard this year.