Early ends to ’14 seasons: Swedish vaulter Angelica Bengtsson (foot)
Two-time NCAA vault winner Sam Kendricks, will forego his senior season at Ole Miss to turn pro. He will be commissioned as a U.S. Army lieutenant after graduating in May.
Competing with Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington, D.C., to be selected by the USOC as the U.S. bid city, Beantown’s boosters believe the IOC might find its plans to cluster venues near each other appealing. Boston would make heavy use of its centrally located cluster of colleges (Harvard, etc.) near the Charles River. “The city is the Olympic park,” Dan O’Connell, president of the Boston 2024 Partnership, told the Boston Globe. “It becomes a public-transit and walking Olympics.” The other bid cities propose scattering venues over larger portions of their respective metropolitan areas
Isi To Take Year Off –With one big win out of the way in ’14, the birth of daughter Eva on June 28, Yelena Isinbaeva will now turn some of her attention back to vaulting. Not for the ’15 season, however.
Isinbaeva, who has called Eva “the biggest victory of my lifetime,” posted an outline of her plans on Instagram: “I am now fully busy with my daughter and family and doing only light exercises. I will start full training no earlier than June 2015. “The main goal for me is the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2016, so in 2015 I will not participate in the competition. These are our plans, and how it would be in reality, only time will tell.” While this means Isinbaeva, now 32, will not defend her world title, federation chief Valentin Balakhnichev has said she will be offered an Olympic team spot even if she skips the ’16 Russian nationals.
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