THE LATEST in the aches, pains & eligibility departments
Some significant international names will pass on indoors to focus on training for next summer. Poland’s ’09 PV world champion Anna Rogowska. A back injury hampered British vaulter Holly Bleasdale the last two outdoor seasons. Now healthy, she aims for a solid outdoor season in ’15, especially defending her Euro Indoor title in March. Olympic PV silver medalist Björn Otto of Germany is back training after recovering from an Achilles tear. Yevgeniy Trofimov, coach of Yelena Isinbaeva, confirmed their desire to compete at the ’16 World Indoor in Portland. But only, he clarified, “if Yelena is in good enough shape for that.” He added that next June they will begin a 7-month initial prep period aimed at the Rio Olympics and trying for the indoor WR also will be a goal en route to Oregon.
Former mile AR holder Steve Scott is again fighting cancer. Scott, 58, beat testicular cancer in ’94 but now is battling prostate cancer. He said he is making his second bout public to encourage men to not be reluctant to see their doctor. “We’re all like that,” says the Cal State-San Marcos coach. Vaulter Jordan Scott says he would “dedicate one or two days to sit down, call my coaches, agent, etc., and get organized before the season even started. Last September, I got married and started a full-time job. I think that maybe if I got more organized with figuring out workout times, times my coach and I could vault together, times I could lift weights, and strategize my vacation days better, that my season would’ve been much more successful.”
