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The men's pole vault qualifying round is scheduled for 10:15am Moscow time. This means it will be 11:15pm on the west coast and 2:15am on the east coast. I will post links to live results and video feeds here, and of course all of the fun will be on Twitter: twitter.com/polevaultpower

Start lists: http://www.iaaf.org/competitions/iaaf-w ... sultheader

Two pits of 20 men each for the qualifying round!

T&F News predictions:

http://www.trackandfieldnews.com/discus ... 27&t=51815

T&FN Formchart:

1. Renaud Lavillenie (France)
2. Björn Otto (Germany)
3. Konstadínos Filippídis (Greece)
4. Malte Möhr (Germany)
5. Raphael Holzdeppe (Germany)
6. Brad Walker (USA)
7. Jan Kudlička (Czech Republic)
8. Lázaro Borges (Cuba)
9. Augusto Dutra de Oliveira (Brazil)
10. Steve Lewis (Great Britain)

TV coverage:
August 10 - 3:30-5 p.m. on NBC
August 11 - 12:30-2 p.m. on NBC
August 17 - Noon-12:30 p.m. LIVE coverage of the 200m on NBC
August 17 - 2:30-4 p.m. on NBC
August 18 - 2:30-4 p.m.on NBC

Webcast: http://universalsports.com/track-field/

Other possible web streams:

watchathletics.com
http://www.stopstream.com/
http://tv.eurosport.com/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/athletics/15971129 (I think that will only work in the UK, but if you can pirate a stream...)
http://www.onlinetv-stream.com/orf-sport-plus/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/5live (audio only)

Live X's and O's http://www.iaaf.org/competitions/iaaf-w ... -4873/live

Be sure to follow along on Twitter, that is where I will be doing the most updates: http://www.twitter.com/polevaultpower

Also, for those with satellite:

Universal network. Dish channel 402

Direct TV Channel 625

If you do not have Universal you can use BBC at

http://www.bbc.co.uk/tv/bbcone/live

If you are in the united states us google chrome and download Hola Unblocker at

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/deta ... meio?hl=en

when you are on the bbc website look in the top right at the fire ball and click it to change your location to Great Britain.

Borges and Steve Lewis are KO. Another surprise for me was the elimination of Tiago Braz Da Silva, ok it's young (1994) but this year flew to 5,83 (RA) with solvency. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON3ocNdA9TM
The participants of the final are:
1. Kudlicka (CZE) 5.65
2. Lavillenie (FRA) 5.65
3. Walker (USA) 5.55
4. Mohr (GER) 5.55
5. Filippidis (GRE) 5.55
6. De Oliveira (BRA) 5.55
7. Otto (GER) 5.55
8. Yamamoto (JPN) 5.55
9. Holzdeppe (GER) 5.55
10. Jeng (SWE) 5.55
11. Valentin Lavillenie (FRA) 5.55
12. XUE (CHN) 5.55
13. Kucheryanu (RUS) 5.55

rainbowgirl28 wrote:T&F News predictions:

http://www.trackandfieldnews.com/discus ... 27&t=51815

T&FN Formchart:

1. Renaud Lavillenie (France)
2. Björn Otto (Germany)
3. Konstadínos Filippídis (Greece)
4. Malte Möhr (Germany)
5. Raphael Holzdeppe (Germany)
6. Brad Walker (USA)
7. Jan Kudlička (Czech Republic)
8. Lázaro Borges (Cuba)
9. Augusto Dutra de Oliveira (Brazil)
10. Steve Lewis (Great Britain)

Finals are at 8am west coast, 11am east coast. Anyone have any predictions?

What will probably Happen: One of the Lavillenie brothers will win. A German will get second and a German will get third.

Wishful thinking: Lavillenie wins, Walker Silver, Any German for Bronze

Really wishful thinking: Walker does not no height, finally goes over 6.00 again, and gets GOLD. Lavillenie Silver, and Holzdeppe third.