Athletics Weekly

Is that all the Canadians back in Canada now? They managed to beat the financial crisis pretty well!!

The changes in body position as the jumper clears the bar does in fact result in the CoG passing below the bar. The legs, head and shoulders are all below the bar as the hips clear, at this point the CoG is still below the bar.
Hope this helps.

Sounds boring. No high hurdles either. Lost the most technical track event and the most technical jump.

Bring on the decathlon for women. 2020 would be a suitable intro to the Olympics.; that is 20 years since the pole vault was introduced as an individual event.The resistance from the current heptathletes is of course huge, most of them would struggle with the very different demands of the 10 events....

Steve Lewis: UK pole Vault record and best ever placing for a British Vaulter in the Olympics.

Thank you Andy for a great post that will hopefully stop ill informed speculation. Julien's group have had a great year in many respects, well done to all involved.

Hear Hear. Words of truth and wisdom.

The standards are based on an assessed top 8 placing roughly based on previous games. They were proposed by Scottish Athletics and agreed by the Scottish CWG Council.

Scottish standards for 2014 and full selection criteria can be found on the Scottish Athletics website.

The ability to see every jump and throw of the field event finals with no commentary was superb. Coverage of field event qualifying rounds was the usual rubbish. I have yet to hear an intelligent or well informed comment from anyone on the BBC concerning the pole vault other than Dean Macey and I th...

That will please the higher management personnel at UKA, who it is alleged have been very keen to see him go. Perhaps his background and ideas took them out of their comfort zone.
It does however leave Scotland a bit rudderless only 2 years out from the Commonwealth Games.

I think we are in for a great year of pole vaulting.
If I may be so pedantic as to point out that a 70cm push off a 4.60m (15ft) pole is actually a clearance of 5.10m allowing for the 20cm depth of the box.
Still a world record, so that is fine for starters.