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Lindenwood's New Pole Vault Pit!

Unread postby rainbowgirl28 » Thu Apr 08, 2004 11:19 pm

This is our new pole vault pit!!

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Unread postby vaulterpunk » Thu Apr 08, 2004 11:24 pm

nice! we have the high jump pits from those games.
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Unread postby rainbowgirl28 » Thu Apr 08, 2004 11:34 pm

vaulterpunk wrote:nice! we have the high jump pits from those games.


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Unread postby tim hutzley » Thu Apr 08, 2004 11:45 pm

how much did those cost?
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Unread postby wacky274 » Fri Apr 09, 2004 12:35 am

i have a pole vaulting bag from those games :D ..... just got it from my coach, nice bag.
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Unread postby theflyingkorean » Fri Apr 09, 2004 3:03 am

those are hella sick :yes:
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OLYMPIC POLE BAGS

Unread postby Bruce Caldwell » Fri Apr 09, 2004 5:01 am

wacky274 wrote:i have a pole vaulting bag from those games :D ..... just got it from my coach, nice bag.


Yes the OLYMPIC pole bags were my brainchild.
When I was the supplier to the Atlanta 1996 Olympics and my former employment at PORTaPIT we wanted a clean venue that did not have all those ragged old bag the vaulter hauled in to the meets.
We also could not allow advertising other than us in the field, as that was the contract agreement.
So we made up over 100 pole bags and gave one to each vaulter.

We also had to make the PV and HJ pits in those two Olympic Colors at first we thought those colors would not look good. But as you can see the pit is really beautiful.
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Unread postby Bruce Caldwell » Fri Apr 09, 2004 5:03 am

tim hutzley wrote:how much did those cost?


$ 14,000 was the price tag to the Atlanta Olympics
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Unread postby achtungpv » Fri Apr 09, 2004 7:27 am

How many pits were there? Bell has one, from the neovault video it appears Cal Poly has one, now Lindenwood. I thought they only had 2 pits in the stadium, unless of course they had backups in storage.

The HJ pit from the men's competition is at Texas State in SAn Marcos. They gave it to Charles Austin for winning gold.
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Unread postby Carolina Extreme » Fri Apr 09, 2004 8:29 am

I'm just guessing. Since those are Earl Bell PV Standards, maybe the pit also came from Earl's and Earl is getting a new pit at his place. How else could you get an 8 yr old pit that looks that good, and doesn't show signs of the sun beating it to death. Unless someone had it in storage for quite a while.
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Unread postby rainbowgirl28 » Fri Apr 09, 2004 9:12 am

Yes ours is the pit from the building. We flipped the top pad over to the less used side.
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Unread postby Carolina Extreme » Fri Apr 09, 2004 10:03 am

Well aren't I the super slooth? The Sherlock Holmes of vaulting. LOL :D

Becca, you have no excuses for missing that pit, it's a big one.
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