University of Virginia physics professor Lou Bloomfield explains some of the fundamental forces at work in Olympic pole vaulting. LOU BLOOMFIELD: I'm Lou Bloomfield here to talk about the physics of ...

Mondo Duplantis can often make the pole vault look easy as he clears world-record heights. But as Athanassios Bissas explains, there is so much more complexity to it. The Greek professor unpicks the ...

The M60 pole vault world record is 4m33.My current record is 2m80.Looking only at the numbers, there is a difference of ...

Pole vault is a track and field event in which athletes attempt to clear a horizontal bar by sprinting down a runway and using a pole to catapult themselves into the air. The athlete who clears the ...

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Wilton senior Ned Hemmerle had outlasted every pole vault opponent on a dreary Thursday except two: school history and a bar set about seven feet over his head. He had already matched his personal ...

According to Nina Kennedy, she fell into pole vault by accident. As she prepares for her second Olympics, the 27-year-old remembers how she got involved with the sport. "I did little athletics and I ...

A viral video of a 95-year-old woman pole vaulting sparked an AI debate, while real athlete Flo Meiler’s remarkable achievements prove age need not stop sporting dreams.