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Isinbayeva strives for perfection Thu Jul 16, 2009 By Brian Pinelli / Special to Universal Sports Ever since Yelena Isinbayeva set her first world record in the women’s pole vault back in July 2003, about a month after her 21st birthday, the Russian sensation has been one of the world’s most domina...

Still soaring http://images.townnews.com/journalnet.com/content/articles/2009/06/26/news/local/2.jpg tflagstad@journalnet.com While growing up in Polson, Mont., Melinda Owen tracked the endeavors of 2000 Olympic pole vault gold medalist Stacy Dragila. Because of what Dragila managed to accomplish i...

Racing: What's in a name By Bruce Fraser on Tue, 23 Jun 2009 Clydevale standardbred breeder Bruce Stirling will be hoping his 3yr-old filly Isinbayeva can show some of the ability of the Russian champion pole vaulter after whom she was named. Isinbayeva recorded her first win last Friday night at A...

Vaulting into the unknown Post categories: 2012 Tom Fordyce | 14:25 UK time, Wednesday, 6 May 2009 There are many ways you'd ideally like to feel before your first ever crack at the pole vault - strong, spring-heeled, as energetic and bouncy as a teenage flea. What you wouldn't want is to be struck...

Women's Pole Vault New entries for the European alltime list: 1st 5.05 WR Yelena Isinbayeva RUS Tied for 7th 4.75 Yuliya Golubchikova RUS Tied for 9th 4.70 Silke Spiegelburg GER Tied for 21st 4.55 Afroditi Skafida GRE 2008 head to head between Europe's best: Yelena Isinbayeva RUS - Monika Pyrek POL...

It was very hard to go back from 40 minutes of video to just 10 minutes. I've tried to give an idea of the day that pole vault history was made. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWGyzPNXI_U Thanks for the video. :yes: It's very nice to see an impression of that entire day including all the preparatio...

When I watched the competition today on TV I had the impression that Isinbayeva has noticeably lost a bit of weight. It might have something to do with that in addition to the cold she had, she apparently also had effects of food poisoning last week according to this article: http://www.allsport.ru/...

"Hexenkessel" means a chaotic, tense, overcrowded (and often noisy) situation usually bound to come to a boiling point in terms of intensity.

Well, if you really want to be complete about it, they forgot to mention her World Indoor Championship 2008 title. But to be honest I think some of the writing is a bit on the subjective side like for instance Kanter, Kozmus, Spotakova, etc. all had losses in 2008, but you'd think they went unbeaten...

You can vote for Yelena Isinbayeva and Evgeniy Lukyanenko (no other pole vaulters are nominated) here:

http://www.european-athletics.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6702&Itemid=2

I read on the IAAF website that Isinbayeva has gotten ill with with fever at the beginning of the week and still felt weak. I guess she still isn't feeling well.