Answer to “What’s this?”

Inside the heap of clothes, there was a Russian lady athlete called Elena Isinbaeva. Making a private room for herself, Elena took a short rest inside. It might be a good thing for her to do this because she could relax before she attempted the next vault. Look at her shoes and legs out of her heap of clothes.








It was the Pole Vault Game for ladies at Beijing Olympics, 2008.

Elena had successfully vault over the height at 4.95m. She was aiming at the new height 5.05m. She failed twice at this new height, but in the last vault, she made it.

Let us look at how Elena vaulted over this final height. She lowered her pole at a slanting position, rested it on her shoulder, raised it and ran towards the target horizontal cross bar. When the pole was inserted at the right spot, she bent her body to bounce up with the help of her pole. She made all the necessary actions right. With this last vault, she crossed the bar with ease. Her face burst with big smiles and pride. At that moment, she was writing a new page in the history of vaulting.








Thus Elena won the game and at the same time broke a new world record (5.05m).















She was so happy that she stood before the screen to tell the world that she had become the new record holder in the Women’s Pole Vault at Beijing Olympics.








Elena took her victory run with the Russian flag at her back in front of thousands of spectators. The latter cheered for this Russian lady who was honoured to be a “wonder-woman” in Vaulting.