ttuvaulter wrote:There aren't any foreign athletes because this is the national pole vault summit. As in our nations summit. It would be wrong to go to russias pole vault summit and compete for america. Thats almost like going to another nations nationals.
Actually there have been plenty of foreign vaulters at the summit...Ruhan Isim (TUR), Gildas Verbist (FRA), Christine Adams (GER), Doris Auer (AUT), Irie Hill (GBR), Piotr Buciarski (DEN), Dominic Johnson (STL), Simon Arkell (AUS), a whole slew of canadians & australians, etc.
Until a few years ago, foreign athletes could compete at the US indoor championships so the meet would be more competitive. Igor Potapovich "won" the US championship (the US gold actually went to the 2nd place finisher in this case) back in like '93 or so.