Pole vaulters have made headlines at the 2024 Paris Olympics, whether it's because they've twerked in celebration of winning a medal or hit their, er, crotch on the bar on the way down. But here's ...

Mary Serritella competes and performs here in Los Angeles and abroad. Her passion for the sport challenges society’s conceptions of age. “I just didn’t want to absorb that ‘I can’t’ attitude.” Her ...

Virginia Marshall can do anything except pick herself up from the floor. At least, that’s what she declares one morning in June after completing a dizzying, gravity-defying four-minute routine. The ...

Swedish pole vault star Armand Duplantis wins BBC Sports Personality's World Sport Star of the Year award for the second year ...

KOCKENGEN, Netherlands (AP) — A split second of flight, then a landing on the sand — or a splashdown in a canal. That's the thrill of the Dutch sport of “fierljeppen” — far leaping — which sees ...

Indian athlete Vir Gahrotra won a gold medal at the Pole and Aerial Sports World Championship, achieving India’s first-ever podium finish at this international event in Budapest, Hungary. Also Read: ...

Mumbai’s 16-year-old Vir Gahrotra won India’s first-ever gold medal at the Pole and Aerial Sports World Championship in ...

Mary Serritella, 71, performs in front of a live audience during the Comedy Pole Show at the Bourbon Room in Hollywood. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times) Dressed in 7-inch neon heels and translucent ...