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 ...

Pole vaulting is one of the more outlandish Olympic events. The primary instruments of the sport are curious creations—big sticks, between 10 and 17 feet in length, that certain track & field ...

Follow our Olympics coverage in the lead-up to the Paris Games. For most of Olympic history, the United States dominated men’s pole vault — which has been part of the Games since the inaugural event ...

The common assumption about Bryce Barkdull is that he has always been a gifted pole vaulter who has been jumping his whole life in a pole-vault pit in his backyard. It would make sense given that his ...

Armand "Mondo" Duplantis had the crowd in Paris roaring when he broke his own world record in the pole vault after he had already won the gold medal. Mondo Mania took over Paris during the Olympic ...

PARIS, FRANCE - JULY 29: Katie Moon of the United States speaks during a Team USA Track & Field press conference on day three of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at the Main Press Centre on July 29, 2024 ...

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 ...

There’s an irony to meeting Armand ‘Mondo’ Duplantis on the 39th floor of his hotel in Tokyo. He seems much more at home up in the air than down on the ground. On Monday, the Swedish pole vaulter ...