On top of sport’s highest mountain, Nina Kennedy can’t help but gaze through the clouds above the view. With rare air pumping ...

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 ...

Kansas City, Mo.? Pole-vaulting isn’t considered a lifetime sport. But Don Livasy has a different viewpoint — one from eight to 10 feet in the air. At age 72, he’s still flying over the bar ...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Armand Duplantis was just excellent instead of record-breaking on Wednesday in his first pole vault competition ... an appetizer for the full Diamond League meeting ...

Pole vaulting is one of the most graceful, beautiful events in the sports world. Unfortunately, it is also quickly racking up a reputation as one of the most dangerous. Three deaths already this ...

Regarding Tuesday’s Olympic pole vault, “Mondo” says he has been “jumping my whole life for this moment”. With a golden performance, is Duplantis destined to become ‘The Face’ of ...

When junior high school student Osamu Takeda saw a pole vaulter at a track and field competition for the first time, he found himself lifted to a natural high in wonderment. On an early summer ...