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Isinbayeva condemns Swedish track athletes who painted fingernails in rainbow...
Two Swedish athletes at the World Track and Field Championships in Moscow have painted their fingernails with rainbow colors to show solidarity with LGBT people and their opposition to anti-gay laws in...
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Isi Champ Condemns Anti-Gay-Law Protest, RIA Says
Pole vaulting world record holder Elena Isinbaeva criticized a fellow-athlete for protesting against a law banning gay “propaganda” that has sparked calls for a boycott of the Winter Olympic Games next...
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Vault great backs off gay comments
A day after condemning homosexuality, Russian pole vault great Yelena Isinbayeva appeared to back off from her critical words on Friday by saying her comments in English might have been misunderstood....
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Swedish athlete switches to red, not rainbow nails
The Swedish high jumper who painted her fingernails in rainbow colors to support gay rights at the world championships took the field Saturday with bright red nail polish this time. Emma Green Tregaro...
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Reaching new heights as a vaulter
I Horsham, UK –don’t think it’s unfair to say that a lot of people only remember the sport of pole vaulting exists once every four years, at the Olympic Games. How many people have had the chance to...
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Walker at odds with Nike
Sports apparel giant Nike has decided to withdraw its offer to sponsor top American pole-vaulter Brad Walker. The decision came after the Spokane native placed tape over the company’s swoosh logo on...
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Isinbayeva ‘misunderstood’
Moscow – Russian pole vault legend Yelena Isinbayeva has attempted on Friday to play down the furor provoked by her anti-gay remarks, saying she was “misunderstood” and opposed to discrimination...
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Sergei Bubka’s quantum leap
Legendary pole vaulter bidding for International Olympic Committee presidency Moscow: It is strange to see Sergei Bubka — the man who broke 35 world records — as an underdog. Yet here Bubka finds...
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Jenn Suhr on her World performance
Jenn Suhr, silver medalist in the epic pole vault showdown with Elena Ishinbaeva: “Everyone definitely got their money’s worth. It was one of the best pole vault competitions ever put on. 4.82m...
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Dutch Doping Authority takes action
AMSTERDAM (NED): The Dutch Doping Authority have announced that they will take action following implications that runner Adrienne Herzog was taking illegal performance enhancing drugs,...
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Dylan Duvio talks about his expectations at Pan American Junior Athletics...
Dylan Duvio sure has been busy. The Gatorade Louisiana Track and Field Athlete of the Year will compete in the Pan American Junior Athletics Championship in Medellin, Columbia on Aug. 23-25. The pole...
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Beijing 2015 World Championships organizers confident of capacity 50,000 plus...
August 18 – Organizers of the 2015 International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships in Beijing announced here today that they will restrict the 80,000-capacity Bird’s Nest...
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Murphree departs Tuesday to compete in 2013 Pan American Juniors
Texas –Daven Murphree didn’t become a three-time state pole vault champion and a champion at several national meets by accident. When natural talent blends with hard work and an undeniable will to win,...
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Team USA dominates Worlds; wins 25 medals
MOSCOW — Team USA finished with 25 medals – six gold, 13 silver and six bronze – tying their second-best medal tally at the World Outdoor Championships. Team USA again dominated the scoring table,...
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Results Around Europe
Huizingen, Belgium–10.8.2013 -Vlaamse Meeting-Luke Cutts (gbr) 5.20; FINLAND–Helsinki, 5.8.2013–Men PV Mareks Arents (lat) 5.50; PV Aino Siitonen 3.95 Hämeenlinna (Finland), 14.8.2013–PV (18) 1 Melker...
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World Championship Results
PV (12, qualy 10) 1 Raphael Holzdeppe (ger) 5.89; Renaud Lavillenie (fra) 5.89; 3 Bjorn Otto (ger); 4 Brad Walker (usa) 5.82; 5 Malte Mohr (ger) 5.82; 6 Seito Yamamoto (jpn) 5.75; 7 Jan Kudlicka (cze)...
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U.S. pole vaulter sells all of his Nike gear on eBay after company drops him...
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World News
PRETORIA (RSA): South African Paralympian Oscar Pistorious has been officially charged with the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, reportsindependent.co.uk. Papers presented at the court...
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Polish Meet Results
MIĘDZYZDROJE (POL, Aug 17): At 15th Komar and Slusarski Memorial Igor Bychkov of Spain won the pole vault with 550 over Latvian Mareks Arents 550. SZCZECIN (POL, Aug 15): German Karsten Dilla won the...
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