Yawn: Another WR for Yelena

wacky274 · Unread postby **wacky274** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 1:40 am

i agree with skyhigh, even when on top, especially in pole vaulting, there is not a lot of money to be found...granted there are payouts for breaking the world record, but what if she comes out next year and is not having a good seaon (not saying this is going to happen, but it's not exactly uncommon in the vault) and she doesnt get invited as many meets...money goes down, you have to look long term, this is their career...i agree it's all good and well to say we'd jump as high as we could, but at some point, if you truly care about it and want to keep competing, you might have to have the money to make that possible, and if that means breaking the world record one centimeter at a time, at least she'll be around awhile cause she'll have the money to fund it

Unread postby **rainbowgirl28** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 1:57 am

wacky274 wrote:but what if she comes out next year and is not having a good seaon (not saying this is going to happen,

All I can say is she had better not turn into one of those people who goes on and on about how high they COULD have vaulted.

Or it had better not turn into a situation like Bubka... think about it. Even if someone breaks Bubka's world record, people will still say Bubka could have vaulted higher, he just never had the competition to push him past the 1cm increments. So whoever breaks his WR won't get all the credit they deserve.

wacky274 · Unread postby **wacky274** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 2:30 am

deff agree, i think there comes a point where you have to go for it...i hope that this is what yelena will do this season...she had her time, she's made her money, now lets see what she's really capable of

Unread postby **rainbowgirl28** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 10:57 am

http://www.onrunning.com/onrunning/news ... sp?id=2134

Yelena Isinbayeva bettered her own world pole vault indoor record for the third successive weekend in Lievin on Saturday.

The 22-year-old Russian added a centimetre to the mark she achieved eight days earlier in Birmingham, with a winning clearance of 4.89metres at the French venue.

The Olympic champion's latest success scored her yet another easy victory ahead of Monika Pyrek - although the Pole matched her own previous best of 4.70m for the fourth time this winter.

Isinbayeva's latest win, took her total of world records indoors and outdoors to 12, since claiming her first at the Norwich Union Grand Prix at Gateshead in July 2003.

Her sensational 2005 indoor season began when opening her programme in Donetsk on February 12,

Isinbayeva at the Sergey Bubka All-Stars meeting in Ukraine defended her title when soaring to her first record of the year with a height of 4.87m.

On Saturday it wasn't all plain sailing for the favourite to replace fellow arch-Russian rival Svetlana Feofanova as champion at the European Indoor Championships beginning in Madrid next Friday.

Isinbayeva failed at her opening height of 4.60m, before vaulting clear first time at both 4.70m and 4.80m. Then just as easily came her latest world record.

The Yevgeniy Trofimov coached star,exuding confidence and a bonus of Euro15,000 already in her pocket, then asked for the bar to be raised to 5.05m - which she narrowly missed.

But that effort clearly suggested Isinbayeva will become the first woman to better the five centimetres barrier - if not in Madrid which is the final indoor meeting of the season, then outdoors when the summer season gets underway.

Her best performance stands at 4.92m, the height which she cleared to win at the IAAF Golden League meeting in Brussels last September.

Lord of the Poles · Unread postby **Lord of the Poles** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 11:05 am

yea, she might want to clear one final PR before she gets injured or anything and that's the end of her career, because it seems like she still has a long way to go with heights, and she can very easily do it now.

SkyHigh21 · Unread postby **SkyHigh21** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 2:27 pm

Ponder this... why are we so obsessed with bubka? Is it because he is the only human to ever jump 20 feet in the pole vault? maybe. Or do we obsess over him because we know he could have jumped a whole heck of alot higher than he did? Exactly. We have all played exactly into the scenario bubka wanted to create for himself. We talk about how high he could have jumped and are amazed at this. We even dislike him for not jumping higher than he did! ITs funny, but do you think that he might have just planned it that way? Sure he was hurt at the end of his career and yes he did try a comeback, but he is still the "grail" of pole vault. Thats what makes him so amazing. I think it was smart, leaves us all wondering just how high he could have jumped!

Yelena is still young and has many seasons ahead of her. The way she trains and the way her coach takes care of her, i dont see any injuries (knock on wood) in her near future. Yes the inevitable can happen. But i think we're just seeing the tip of the iceberg with Yelena.

Unread postby **rainbowgirl28** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 9:53 pm

Some pictures

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s ... 808539.jpg

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s ... 0202262131

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s ... 0102262128

vaultmd · Unread postby **vaultmd** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 3:33 pm

I used to have abs like that . . .

Scott Go Pre · Unread postby **Scott Go Pre** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 3:45 pm

vaultmd wrote:I used to have abs like that . . .

Yeah, me too! What happened to my lovely abs?

CHC04Vault · Unread postby **CHC04Vault** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 4:28 pm

under ur beer belly

jp

vaultmd · Unread postby **vaultmd** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 8:39 pm

CHC04Vault wrote:under ur beer belly jp

Hey! How did you know that?

We've never met . . .

CHC04Vault · Unread postby **CHC04Vault** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 8:42 pm

from my experiancees of all track kids drink, lol...or im stalkin u :dazed:

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Yawn: Another WR for Yelena

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