Oslo - Isi 4.85, Pyrek 4.60, Polnova, Golubchikova 4.55

[achtungpv]

Seriously, how the heck do you throw a snow ball ~230 feet?

[BruceFlorman]

I suppose they get a lot of practice in Norway.

3rd attempt clearance (barely) for Isi!
[code] 385 400 415 430 445 455 460 465 470 475 485
ISINBAYEVA - - - - - - xx- o - o xxo MR
PYREK - - - o o o o - xxx SB
POLNOVA - - o o xo xxo xxx SB
GOLUBCHIKOVA - - o xo xo xxo xxx
MURER - - - xo o xxx
BADUROVÃÂ

[rainbowgirl28]

From the sound of her interviews, it sounds like she has not gotten as much vault practice in as she would like at this point in the season. I like that she is jumping some bars (I assume to get some practice in). Good for the crowd too.

[rainbowgirl28]

Haha I like these descriptions be EPelle on the T&F News message board:

Posted: 15 Jun 2007 14:50 Post subject:

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4.75m attempt was as close as they get in terms of having luck: Cleared the height by a thousand km -- yes, she was somewhere in heaven, but knocked the bar on the way down... it bounced up and down three times or so -- and moved forward a few mm and stayed on!


Posted: 15 Jun 2007 14:54 Post subject:

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Just cleared 4,85m with the same bouncing bar which miraculously didn:t fall off, again!

[BruceFlorman]

Now a 1st attempt miss at 4.95 for Isi.

Sleserenko, the other Yelena from Volgograd, is on fire tonight, with a clean card through 2.02 in the wHJ.

Now a 2nd miss for Isi.

[BruceFlorman]

No go.
But I guess that means Jennski keeps the world lead.
[code] 385 400 415 430 445 455 460 465 470 475 485 495
ISINBAYEVA - - - - - - xx- o - o xxo xxx MR
PYREK - - - o o o o - xxx SB
POLNOVA - - o o xo xxo xxx SB
GOLUBCHIKOVA - - o xo xo xxo xxx
MURER - - - xo o xxx
BADUROVÃÂ

[rainbowgirl28]

http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id ... redentials

Powell, Isinbayeva underline world credentials
06-15-2007, 21h04
OSLO (AFP)



Jamaican 100m world record holder Asafa Powell celebrates in Oslo after enjoying a great start and raced home in 9.94sec, his 27th sub-10sec timing recorded over the blue riband event.
(AFP)

Jamaican 100m world record holder Asafa Powell and Russian world and Olympic pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva underlined their star credentials here Friday with crushing wins in their respective events.


Isinbayeva, who has previously bemoaned the dearth of quality opposition in her event, entered the pole vault at 4.60m with only Poland's Monica Pyrek left in the competition.

Pyrek promptly crashed out at 4.70m while Isinbayeva had to settle for 4.85m.

[rainbowgirl28]

http://www.iaaf.org/GLE07/news/Kind=2/newsId=39116.html

Isinbayeva and Slesarenko hold their nerve

The concentration of the reigning Olympic champions in the women’s High Jump and Pole Vault – both also Golden League Jackpot events – were sorely and unnecessarily tested this evening. Strangely, with both competitions still in progress - after the last track event had been completed - a playful invasion of the infield took place by in excess of 1000 children who descended from the spectator tribunes. In the melee of requests for autographs Yelena Slesarenko and Yelena Isinbayeva gamely continued their competitions with the former incredibly, considering in the surrounding distractions, going clear in the High Jump over 2.02m, while the Russian, who had won the vault with 4.85m - a stadium record - made three unsuccessful attempts at 4.95m..

[BruceFlorman]

Strangely, with both competitions still in progress - after the last track event had been completed - a playful invasion of the infield took place by in excess of 1000 children who descended from the spectator tribunes.

Looking back over my posts, I realize that I didn't mention anything about all that. The "radio" folks were talking about it, but I somehow failed to realize that not everyone was listening to 'em. Sorry 'bout that. I knew I shouldn't have been trying to work at the same time I was listening and reporting.

[BruceFlorman]

I'm not 100% sure if this is going to work or not, since sometimes the URLs from the Getty Images site seem to contain session-specific data, and don't work from anywhere other than the machine where they were originally sent. So if clicking on the link below doesn't get you to a collection of pole vault photos from Oslo, you might just have to go to the site and do a search for Oslo "pole vault" yourself.

http://tinyurl.com/38cpke

If it does work, you should be able to navigate forward and back with the little buttons in the upper right.

[BruceFlorman]

[quote="Laura Arcoleo for the IAAF"]4.85m for Isinbayeva’s new swing – IAAF Golden League
Friday 15 June 2007

Oslo, Norway - World and Olympic champion Yelena Isinbayeva opened her 2007 summer season with a win at tonight's ExxonMobil Bislett Games - IAAF Golden League 2007 - in Oslo but failed in her declared ambition of taking the World’s season’s best performance from American record holder Jenn Stuczynski.

After clearing 4.85m at her third attempt, the World record holder failed to clear a would-be world lead 4.95m.

“It’s a good beginning,â€Â