Women's PV Final - 6:30am eastern, 3:30am Pacific

[rainbowgirl28]

20:47 : And a clearance for Pyrek now. Like Mount Everest, once someone has shown the way over the top, everyone else seems able to follow.

[rainbowgirl28]

Golubchikova clears 4.65 on her 2nd attempt as well.

[rainbowgirl28]

20:48 : Golubchikova brushes the bar, but she has a clearance now as well. It's to Polnova and Stuczynski to try a third time.

[BruceFlorman]

WTH? Did Jennski withdraw?

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Yelena ISINBAYEVA    -   -   -   o   -   -   
Fabiana MURER        o   o   o   xo 
Monika PYREK         o   o   o   xo 
Yuliya GOLUBCHIKOVA  o   o   o   xo 
Vanessa BOSLAK       xo  o   x-  xo 
Katerina BADUROVA    o   o   o   -   
Svetlana FEOFANOVA   -   o   o   -   
Anna ROGOWSKA        o   xxo o   -   x
Tatyana POLNOVA      o   xxo xxo xxx
Jenn STUCZYNSKI      -   xo  -   xx
Kym HOWE             o   xxo xxx
Silke SPIEGELBURG    xxx


[rainbowgirl28]

Soo the British folks that are talking on WCSN.com completely missed the fact that Polnova's 2nd attempt was counted as a miss, even though the camera showed the official holding a red flag.

She definitely did not Volz the bar. On the side they showed, the bar was still on the peg, though it had flipped over to the round side.

I didn't think that was a miss??

It is possible that the bar bounced up to the standard on the far peg, otherwise I am really unclear as to why this was a miss.


20:52 : Polnova brushed the bar off on her way up; she's done, though now she's discussing this with the officials. She's understandably disappointed. The bar has been raised to 4.70m.


Rogowska misses her first at 4.70. No indication as to if Jenn is passing or what. She does not appear to have taken her third at 4.65.

Badurova misses her first at 4.70. Her first miss of the evening.

[rainbowgirl28]

20:54 : Stuczynski seems to have pulled out; with one attempt remaining at 4.65m, she's stripped off her ankle wraps and spikes and put on her warm-ups. Feofanova has the first clearance at 4.70m.

[rainbowgirl28]

Feofanoa makes it on her first! She and Isinbayeva are the only ones left with no misses.

Murer misses her first.

[rainbowgirl28]

The WCSN commentators think Polnova got called for Volzing. I did not see that on the video. First time I can recall a woman being called for that in a major meet.

[rainbowgirl28]

20:57 : Boslak is over 4.70m, a new French record. Eight vaulters remain in contention.

[BruceFlorman]

The WCSN commentators think Polnova got called for Volzing. I did not see that on the video. First time I can recall a woman being called for that in a major meet.

I don't think there's any way she could've done that. The bar was still bouncing on the pegs when she was a meter below on the way down. Bad call if you ask me (... which you didn't).

[rainbowgirl28]

They show video of 4.70 and Feofanova clears easily with plenty of height on it.

[rainbowgirl28]

Video of Boslak shows she might have brushed the bar just slightly but it barely wiggled. She didn't have much height on it.