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...following this weekend. “It was a good meet for us,” Harvard coach Jason Saretsky said. “We were able to work on some things that need to get done. We had some great performances all around.”Senior pole-vaulter Clara Blattler headlined the weekend’s action, besting the Harvard school record of 3.65 meters—which she set at last year’s UConn Invitational—by clearing 3.80 meters. The clearance ties her indoor personal best that she said at last year?...
...tradition of competition.”Not to mention, track and field has been an integral part of Blattler’s Harvard education.“[Clara] and I always joked that we spend more time together than with any other people,” said fellow pole vaulter and senior captain Sally Stanton.“A lot of people who saw me and knew I was interviewing they all said, ‘Good luck’ and ‘I hope you do well’ and ‘You?...
...Blacks have been the world's outstanding team, with a 75% win record against all rugby-playing nations, many of which have never beaten them. Yet the first Cup, of 1987, is the only one they have won. They're the rugby equivalent of Sergei Bubka, the Ukrainian pole vaulter who broke 35 vaulting world records but won only one Olympic medal...
...toss of 57.10 meters was just under two meters better than any of the other 18 competitors. Senior James Rhodes and junior James Ayers had tosses good enough for sixth and seventh in the hammer toss events, leaving divots 50.04 and 47.90 meters from the circle. Sophomore pole vaulter Dan Ford took sixth in his events. —THE CRIMSON STAFF
...Olympics celebrate the triumph of motion, the powerful upward thrust of a weight lifter, the gravity-defying spring of a pole vaulter, even the twirling toes of a flock of synchronized swimmers. So when Mongolia's sole female marathoner, Luvsanlkhundeg Otgonbayar, appeared at the entrance of a massive marble stadium unveiled in 1896 for Athens' first modern Olympics, it was impossible not to be taken aback by her almost imperceptible pace. More than an hour had passed since Japan's Mizuki Noguchi, a 40-kg wisp, had fluttered into the stadium, vomited and smoothed back her hair to accept...