Word: vaulted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pole Vault--1. A. Hawkey. 159 2. N. Smith 3. A. Thomas 4 N. Jones 4. Pr. Henechka...
...have to be reckless but you can't leave yourself to complete abandon," Randall said. "I learned that it's better to vault cautiously than act to vault...
...wasn't especially fast or big so I narrowed the events in which I could participate to three: the high jump, the javelin, and the pole vault," Spanos said. "I thought it [pole valuting] looked ridiculous but one of my friends was doing it, so I gave it a shot. Seven feet was the first height I cleared. It seemed like a mile...
Danger is an integral part of vaulting and the possibility of injury is always in the back of a vaulter's mind. There are over 100 different steps involved in a single vault, and a slip up in any one of these motions could spell disaster. The greatest threat to the vaulter is that be won't quite make it over the bar and will return from whence he came, as they say. The floor on which he makes his approach is hard and there are no pads to cushion his fall...
...Catch-22 is that in order to vault to greater heights you must take a chance--move your hand a bit lower on the pole, or speed up your approach--but too much doring can be fatal. It's that dynamic tension of risk and cautiousness that every vaulter strives...