Pole Vault world record beaten by Frenchman

[ELVIS]

It should be called Hole Vault for the women...

[Seshmeister]

Damn twice I started posting that but thought nah .... Although it's the only chance to use a pole vaulter joke . It was beneath the army .

It was

Fuck you pal! :D

[vandeleur]

Tho sorry to de rail here on the subject of jokes :

What's the difference between a chickpea and a lentil ....
There is no way am paying 200 pound to have a lentil on my face :D

[vandeleur]

Damn twice I started posting that but thought nah .... Although it's the only chance to use a pole vaulter joke . It was beneath the army .

It was

[Seshmeister]

A reporter meets a man carrying an eight-foot-long metal stick and asks, “Are you a pole vaulter?”
“No,” says the man, “I’m German. But how did you know my name is Walter?

[vandeleur]

As long as they show slo mo on the big screen am in :D

[Jérôme Frenchise]

Taking a look at these pics, no doubt it will soon become a most popular sports show.

[Jérôme Frenchise]

Dunno if she is the same jumper, but she may turn round too anyway.



This one seems to have a little trouble handling that pole... :D



Here's a bit better:



This sport isn't only physical, it needs some cuntcentration too :

[Jérôme Frenchise]

She could be a kronenbourg .....
As in kronenbourg 1664, looks 16 from the back but looks 64 from the front :D

I'd be happy with the back side, even if the front was terrible.

[vandeleur]

She could be a kronenbourg .....
As in kronenbourg 1664, looks 16 from the back but looks 64 from the front :D

[Jérôme Frenchise]

Number 111's pole-rising buns out...

[Jérôme Frenchise]

Women's pole vault competititions are quite interesting...

They set to it a good dozen years ago. They jump lower bars, but they can ride poles all right.

Some postures are damn cool anyway.









But they're used to handling a certain pole size so that it can be but a little too intimidating before appoaching them. :D

[BITEYOASS]

On a side note, French Ice Dancer Nathalie Péchalat sure does makes my pole rise to the occasion.

[Nitro Express]

Cool. I always wanted to try pole vaulting. It looks fun.

Well fun unless you hit the end of the pole with your nuts.

[Jérôme Frenchise]

http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/athletics/26208821

Sergey Bubka's pole vault record broken by Renaud Lavillenie

Olympic champion Renaud Lavillenie has broken Sergey Bubka's 21-year-old pole vault world record with a 6.16m leap in the Ukrainian's home city of Donetsk.

The Frenchman, 27, cleared the height on his first attempt to go one centimetre higher than the record Bubka set indoors in February 1993.

Former Olympic champion Bubka also held the world outdoor record of 6.14m, achieved in Italy in 1994.

Marks set indoors or out are accepted as world records in the pole vault.

Lavillenie wrote on Twitter: "World record! 6.16 at my first attempt! That's incredible. I'm still in the air."

Bubka was a pioneer of the sport, becoming the first man to clear 6.00m, and was in Donetsk to witness Lavillenie eclipse his record.

The six-time outdoor world champion broke the men's pole vault world record 35 times during his career, 17 times outdoors and 18 indoors.

Bubka walked onto the track to congratulate Lavillenie and later said: "That's fantastic. It's history and I'm very happy that Renaud does it here, in Donetsk, my town.

"I'm happy because my job is to help athletes perform. Athletics is my life. I'm pleased for him and for athletics."

Lavillenie, whose best outdoors is 6.02m, described his achievement as "completely unbelivable".

He told French news channel BFM TV: "I will need time to get back down on earth. It was a mythical record. I knew I had the potential to try it but [to] beat it so early, that's something else.

"I did not know what was happening to me. The sound was crazy. These are huge emotions. I am in a new dimension."

Luke Cutts' fine start to the season continued as the British record holder cleared 5.81m to finish second in Ukraine.

How the indoor pole vault world record has progressed

6.16m Renaud Lavillenie (Donetsk, 15 Feb 2014)
6.15m Sergey Bubka (Donetsk, 21 Feb 1993)
6.14m Sergey Bubka (Lievin, 13 Feb 1993)
6.13m Sergey Bubka (Berlin, 21 Feb 1992)
6.11m Sergey Bubka (Donetsk, 19 Mar 1991)
6.10m Sergey Bubka (San Sebastian,15 Mar 1991)
6.08m Sergey Bubka (Volgograd, 9 Feb 1991)
6.05m Sergey Bubka (Donetsk, 17 Mar 1990)