Bydgoszcz - Feofanova 4.71, Pyrek & Isinbaeva 4.61

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Unread postby rainbowgirl28 » Wed Feb 20, 2008 8:43 pm

That is rather low :no:
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Unread postby jcoover » Wed Feb 20, 2008 8:49 pm

BOOOOO :no: :no: :no: :no: :no: :no:
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Unread postby bjvando » Wed Feb 20, 2008 9:29 pm

hahaha, you gotta admit thats a little funny... :)
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Unread postby BruceFlorman » Thu Feb 21, 2008 1:32 am

Here's the quick take from AllSport.ru:
[quote]01:00 21.02.2008 – Light Athletics
Yelena Isinbaeva suffered her first "winter" defeat since 22 February, 2004
On February 20th at the Pedro´s Cup tournament in Bydgoszcz Poland, the reigning world champion, world record holder, and Olympic champion in the women’s pole vault, Yelena Isinbaeva, suffered her first indoor defeat since February 22nd, 2004. The perpetrator, like four years ago, was her compatriot and principle rival for the bulk of the last five seasons, Svetlana Feofanova. The Agency of Sport Information "All Sport" reports about this.

Before this tournament Isinbaeva had won 15 straight “winterâ€
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Unread postby VaultPurple » Thu Feb 21, 2008 3:36 pm

she had to get a loss out of the way befor the olympics.... rather not have one at the big show
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Unread postby BruceFlorman » Fri Feb 22, 2008 10:49 am

There are a bunch of photos from the meet on its website...
http://www.pedroscup.pl/pl/news/galeria ... z2008.html

For example...
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Some of the folks in this photo appear a little happier than others. ;)
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