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Thousand Oaks’ Burnett wins gold in senior pole vault
Thousand Oaks, California –Kevin Burnett of Thousand Oaks won the pole vault competition at the recent National Senior Games at Berea, Ohio. Burnett, a pole vault coach at Thousand Oaks High,...
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USA Team talk about the Worlds
MOSCOW – In advance of the 14th IAAF World Championships, coaches and athletes of Team USA met with members of the media at Luzhniki Olympic Sports Stadium. Mike Holloway, men’s head coach of Team USA...
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More on Doping: Tests are ‘mandatory’– Press liaison says Jamaicans were not...
MOSCOW, Russia:Jamaica’s team press liaison at the IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Moscow, Dennis Gordon, has dismissed reports of Jamaican athletes being targeted by anti-doping authorities...
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IAAF calls on Russia to reconsider views on gays
MOSCOW — The IAAF called on Russia to reconsider its views on gays, but said Wednesday that it does not want to raise political issues about the country’s new anti-gay legislation at the world...
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Zambia Athletics Chief Accused of Ferrying Lover to Moscow
Some Zambia Amature Athletic Association members have accused its president Elias Mpondela of leaving them and instead taking his lover, Leya to Moscow for the international games. Sources have claimed...
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The Training Group Dilemma
The minute a collegiate track and field athlete finishes their final NCAA competition, they become a free agent. No pageantry of the NBA draft, no donning the cap of the team that just drafted you, no...
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Kenya athletes faced odyssey to the Worlds
Kenya’s athletics team arrives in Moscow, Russia, this evening for the 14th IAAF World Athletics Championships that starts on Saturday. The team, which was scheduled to depart on Monday at 4pm, were...
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Decathlon exploits left Eaton searching for lost spark
MOSCOW (Reuters) – After a stellar 2012 that brought two world records and Olympic decathlon gold, Ashton Eaton was ready for a rest. What he had not bargained for was the physical and mental toll his...
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Echo Summit to become a Historical Landmark
Echo Summit was the unlikely center of the track and field universe for a few remarkable weeks in 1968. While the track that produced four world records and one of the greatest Olympic teams in any...
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TFN Weekend Highlights
COPENHAGEN–Copenhagen, Denmark, August 1—PV: 1. Alhaji Jeng (Swe) 18-1¼ (5.52); 2. Luke Cutts (GB) 18-1¼; 3. Rasmus Jørgensen (Den) 18-1¼. PV: 1. Malin Dahlström (Swe) 14-4 (4.37). KUORTANE–Kuortane,...
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RunBlogRun World Preview: Decathlon
Decathlon: Ashton Eaton vs. Trey Hardee. This heavyweight bout between two incredible decathletes should be a major highlight of these championships. As occasionally happens when two great athletes...
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Track and field athletes weigh cost of doping scandals
MOSCOW – High jumper Brigetta Barrett sees a positive to the doping busts that have tainted the run-up to the IAAF World Championships beginning Saturday. “It could have been after worlds and after...
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Radcliffe accuses Turkey of ‘child abuse’ over doping scandal
Paula Radcliffe says the involvement of teenagers as young as 16 in the recent Turkish doping scandal amounts to “child abuse” and countries that fail to protect their young athletes should be thrown...
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IAAF ready to return to four-year doping bans
(Reuters) – Athletics is set to reintroduce four-year doping bans even though the move risks alienating the sport from the world anti-doping authority (WADA), officials said on Wednesday on the eve of...
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Arizona Pole Vault Academy vaulters moving on to college
Kristianna Warth of Red Mountain High School. Signed with University of Arizona DI State Champion Runner-up 11-9 Nathan Hiett (SR) signed with University of New York – Albany. Placed 5th at State....
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Tweets from Nick Hysong: Risen Performance
August 2 –Cole Walsh puts up a new PB at 5.15m and a 3rd Place overall from the Friday Night Vaults in San Diego, Grant Sisserson finished 4th with 5m. August 2 –The pole bag was a gift from the men!...
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WORLD MASTERS GAME–Pole Vault M30-60
Torino 2013 Pos. Bib Athlete Year Cat. COUNTRY Mark Points 1 1088 RITTE Thomas 1979 M30 GER GERMANY 4.60 4.40 4.60 4.70 O XXO XXX 2 1090 RITTE Wolfgang 1953 M60 GER GERMANY 4.00 2.50 2.70 2.80...
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World Master Games –M65-85
Torino, Italy Pole Vault M65-85 1 1536 TOLLSTERN Anders 1947 M65 SWE SWEDEN 2.80 1.50 1.65 1.75 1.85 1.95 2.00 2.20 2.25 2.30 2.35 2.40 2.45 2.50 2.55 2.60 2.65 2.70 2.75 2.80 2.85 2.90...
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WORLD MASTERS GAMES–W30-60
W30 1 688 HERRMANN Bjanca 1981 W30 GER GERMANY 3.20 1.50 1.70 1.90 2.00 2.10 2.20 2.30 2.35 2.40 2.45 2.50 2.55 2.60 2.65 2.70 2.75 2.80 2.85 2.90 2.95 3.00 3.05 3.20 3.34 - - - O - - -...
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Olympic Champion Says Boycotts Futile, Sports Key to Progress
Olympic champion Sergei Bubka giving a speech at an Olympic event. Despite already being one of the world’s most successful athletes and having broken world records in pole vaulting, Sergei Bubka is...
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