Berlin - Hooker 5.96 PR, Burgess 5.91

[rainbowgirl28]

http://www.wcsn.com/

Coverage begins at 7am eastern.

That's 4am my time. Don't hold your breath on me providing any updates. You east coasters will have to cover that.

[BruceFlorman]

Okay at about 7:35 they just showed Richard Spiegelburg clearing 5.71 to go into the lead.

Also mentioned that it's Lobinger's birthday, and he promised to buy a pint for everyone in the stadium if he breaks the WR.

[BruceFlorman]

Fabian Schulze was just shown clearing 5.71 at about 7:43. They said Hooker is also clear at 5.71, but didn't show it. Then they showed Lars Börgeling bailing out on his attempt. Starting to look like we're only going to get to see the German competitors. But since there are six of them, we may still see lots of the PV.

[BruceFlorman]

Sticking with the all-German theme, at 7:58 they showed Lobinger clearing 5.71 on his 2nd attempt.

[BruceFlorman]

First non-Germans shown at 8:08 - Mack & Averbukh both miss on their 3rd attempts at 5.71. But then Toby Stevenson snakes over on his third attempt!

[BruceFlorman]

I'm a little slow on the uptake this morning, but I finally found the X's and O's: http://www.leichtathletik.de/Dokumente/ ... index.html

[BruceFlorman]

8:20 - Lobinger fails 2nd time at 5.81.

[BruceFlorman]

8:24 - Burgess clears 5.81 on his 2nd attempt.

[BruceFlorman]

8:30 - Spiegelburg misses his 3rd at 5.81.

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Ergebnisliste - Stabhoch Männer
Athlete              Nat 5.51 5.61 5.71 5.81 5.86 5.91
BURGESS, Paul        AUS  -    xo   -    xo
ECKER, Danny         GER  -    xxo  -    xxo
SCHULZE, Fabian      GER  -    o    o    - 
HOOKER, Steven       AUS  -    -    o    - 
WALKER, Brad         USA  -    -    o    - 
SPIEGELBURG, Richard GER  o    -    o    xxx
LOBINGER, Tim        GER  o    -    xo   xxx
STEVENSON, Toby      USA  -    xo   xxo  xxx
BRITS, Okkert        RSA  -    xo   x-   xx
AVERBUKH, Aleksandr  ISR  o    -    xxx   
BÖRGELING, Lars      GER  o    -    xxx   
OTTO, Björn          GER  o    -   
MACK, Timothy        USA  xxo  -    xxx   
SAWANO, Daichi       JPN  xxx     
MESNIL, Romain       FRA  xxx     
GIBILISCO, Giuseppe  ITA  -     

[BruceFlorman]

8:44 - They show Stevenson's 3rd attempt failure at 5.81, then Ecker's 3rd attempt clearance, and finally Lobinger's 3rd failure. Lobinger just took it off with his elbow, and we clearly hear his cursing afterward.

[BruceFlorman]

Well ... it's 8:58 and they're showing the GL "presenting of the bricks" ... but the live scoring indicates the PV isn't over yet. Hmmm. Dunno if they're gonna go off air before the competition is over?

[BruceFlorman]

Yep ... the webcast is over.

Furthermore, the scoring hasn't updated in quite awhile. Maybe they suspended competition while the ceremony was going on? I suppose that was a big focus for the German TV audience, and had to go off on a fixed schedule.