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Pole vault star Duplantis ready for Olympics like no other Issued on: 13/05/2021 - 03:46 Anticipation: The Tokyo Olympics can't come soon enough for pole vault world record holder Armand Duplantis Jonathan NACKSTRAND AFP 4 min Stockholm (AFP) Sweden's world pole vault record holder Armand Duplantis can barely wait to make his "childhood dream" come true of competing in his first Olympics this summer in Tokyo, he told AFP. Duplantis will have enormous pressure on his 21-year-old shoulders in Japan, but he said he was learning to live with the expect...

Published May 1, 2021, 4:25 PM Pole vaulter EJ Obiena (left) and weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz With less than 100 days before the Tokyo Games, weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz and pole vaulter EJ Obiena are making the most out of their preparations to quench that thirst for the country’s first Olympic gold medal. Diaz, silver medalist at the 2016 Rio Games, said she is intensifying her training following her stint at the Asian Weightlifting Championships in Uzbekistan where she missed the podium but earned a fourth Olympic berth. “Intensify everything kasi eto na, papalapit na. Ibubuhos ko na. Lahat...

Thursday, 11 February 2021 In December 2014 I found myself on the seventh floor terrace of the Fairmont Hotel in Monaco with James Bond. That is, a man in a dinner jacket and semi-secure bow tie pretending to be James Bond. That is, Renaud Lavillenie. A few hours later France’s Olympic and European pole vault champion was due to receive the Athlete of the Year award, primarily for his achievement in February of that year when, at the Druzhba Arena in Donetsk, he had cleared 6.16 metres to break the world record of 6.15m set almost 21 years earlier at the same venue by Ukraine’s Sergey Bu...

Sergey Bubka, Tim Mack, Steve Hooker, Thiago Braz and Mondo Duplantis (© Getty)   The six-metre pole vault remains one of the most elusive barriers in elite athletics yet it is also one of the most universal. Pole vault legend Sergey Bubka was the first to achieve the feat, topping 6.00m exactly on 13 July 1985. Then on 22 January 1989 – 32 years ago today – an unofficial ‘club’ of six-metre vaulters was formed when Rodion Gataullin became the second person to scale the height. The club now boasts 24 members, including seven of the past eight Olympic champions in the event. Between ...

Ukraine wants the Games, so does Hungary Paradox. With less than 200 days until the event, the sky is cloudy over Tokyo and the staging of the next Summer Games remains as dubious as in the first months of the health crisis. But the IOC can take comfort: the Olympic event is always a dream. Two Eastern European countries took advantage of the new year to express their willingness to enter into the race. Good news for the IOC: these two potential applicants have never organised the Games, summer nor winter. Their possible participation in a candidacy campaign would have the merit of being able...