And the worst part? When people decided to speak up about the injustice, some went about it the completely wrong way.

(CNN)-- There are few sports that are so dominated by a single person like the way the women's pole vault is ruled by ... is a world away from her modest background. Born in Volgograd in 1982 ...

Kansas City, Mo.? Pole-vaulting isn’t considered a lifetime sport. But Don Livasy has a different viewpoint — one from eight to 10 feet in the air. At age 72, he’s still flying over the bar ...

What actually goes into the perfect jump? The world's best pole vaulter Armand “Mondo” Duplantis, a 11-time world record holder, breaks down what it takes to fly. Pole vaulting is one of the ...

Sweden’s Armand Duplantis competes in the men’s pole vault event during the All Star Perche international ... It was “playing in the background, everything, exactly as I’d imagined it in my head, so ...

"I never imagined there was such a sport." When Takeda pleaded with the club supervisor that he wanted to try pole vaulting, the advisor procured a bamboo pole. Takeda spread out a mat on a ...

Roberts Wesleyan graduate student and Team USA Olympian Brynn King repeated as NCAA Division II women’s indoor pole vault ...