Olympic athletes sometimes come with Olympian baggage: kayaks, bows and arrows, javelins, horses for equestrian events, sails for windsurfers and yachtsmen, rifles. That's a lot of stuff heading into ...

Here’s a recent Olympics story via the Associated Press: SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — One of America’s very best in the medieval-looking pursuit of hammer throw thought she had seen it all when it came ...

Athletes shipping poles directly to Hayward Field must complete THIS FORM. Athletes shipping poles directly to Hayward Field must specify the shipment cannot arrive earlier than 9:00 AM on Tuesday, ...

At 74-years-old, Atascadero resident Jan Johnson has won a bronze medal, set a world record and helped train and mold the next generation of pole vaulters over the past 50 years. It started when he ...

Hoops 360 co-hosts Caroline Fenton, Cassandra Negley and Isis “Ice” Young react to the news of the WNBA CBA deadline extension and discuss what it means for the league. Plus - women’s college ...

If you watched one pole vaulter this week, it was probably French Olympian Anthony Ammirati, who became a viral sensation when his manhood tipped the crossbar and saw him prematurely ejected from the ...

As you head east on Grant Road near Mountain Avenue on Monday and Thursday evenings, you’ll spot something soaring through the air in the backyard of a midtown home. While zipping down the road, it ...

Jenn Suhr, the 2012 Olympic women's pole vault gold-medalist, remains one of the world's best in the women's pole vault and the Riga native advanced to the IAAF World Track and Field Championships.

Don Bragg, who was denied his dream of playing Tarzan in the movies but parlayed his imposing physique into a gold medal in the pole vault at the 1960 Rome Olympics, died Saturday at his home in ...

Having qualified for the Class 2A boys track and field state meet three times in his first three years, Taylorville pole vaulter Drake Howard is more motivated than ever to finish his high school ...