WC MPV Q - Walker DNS, Hooker in, Miles only American

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(website still being slow for me, not sure why, at least my video still works)


Suzuki misses his third. Bar now going to 5.55.


It looks like they are starting their run in bright sunlight then running into shade. Seems like it would be distracting.

Lavillanie up first at 5,55, another huge clearance!

Does he even use tape? It looks like just chalk and fiberglass?!

Cutts misses his first attempt at 5.60 (not shown)

Rovan bails at top and kicks it off.

Rans makes it over the bar and is pretty pumped up. Clean jump but not a ton of height on it.

Olhovsky misses (not shown)

Straub has a huge clearance and the German crowd goes nuts! Opens at this height.

Toby Stevenson bails.

Filippidis misses (not shown)

The standards are those automatic raising ones, that memorably failed in Beijing.

Jeremy Scott seen running up and down the runway, he looks awfully sharp in the Team USA uniform He was over the bar but nicks it off on the way down.

Gripich misses (not shown)

Dossevi makes it clean.

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Mazuryk looks under and misses, comes down on the bar.

Jeng, Andreev, Salomaki miss (not shown), Chistiakov makes (not shown).

Lewis misses (not shown)

Mohr has a big ol blow through.

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Michalski miss (not shown)

Derek Miles enters at this height. Makes it easily

Mesnil bumps it off on the way up.

Sawano makes (not shown).

The announcer confesses to watching the naked video of Mesnil haha.

Gibilisco bangs the heck out of the bar, it rotates to the rounded end... but stays up!

I think that was Otto running through in the background.

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Pavlov comes down on the bar and misses his first try at 5.55.


IAAF:

11:10 vi vaulter - Looks like Group A in the vault is not having the same success at 5.55 as Grouip B is. Are both vault runways set up paralle to each other?
11:10 Moderator - Yes, the runways are parallel, but Group A is slightly more south.
11:10 Moderator - Steve Hooker is up and jogging around at the pole vault.

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Yoo Kim on the runway... bails.

Rovan misses his second (not shown)

Kudlicka crashes down on the bar.

Now second attempts for everyone. Misses for Stevenson and Jeng (not shown) .

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Cutts bails.

Andreev misses (not shown)

Salomaki misses (not shown)

Olhovsky bails.

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11:14 Hysong - Both runways are for the most part equal. I have competed there.

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Filippidis blows through.

Lewis clears (not shown)

Michalski misses (not shown)

I hear clapping for Otto but they are just showing deca discus He missed (not shown)

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Gripich clears. Video switched over to deca discus


If you look carefully, you may see Paul Merca by the VTB sign in the middle of the first turn.

Jeremy Scott clears on his second attempt! Yeah Grande!!

Rovan XXX

Mazuryk clears on third.

Stevenson misses and is out, won't make the final

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They go back and show the video of Stevenson's third jump. He knocks it off on the way up.

Back to PV, yay

Andreev is wearing boy shorts IMO (like what girls normally wear). It's kind of an ugly jump but he makes.

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Jeng made on third, they did not show.

Salomaki crashes terribly into the right standard and is done. Ouch! Glad he is out before he kills himself...

Mohr makes on his second (not shown).

Back to discus, drat.

Pavlov and Yoo Kim miss their second attempts.

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11:24 Hysong - Anyone with a 1st attempt at 5.55 could quit now. My guess is 12 guys won't make 5.65.

11:26 Hysong - I was hoping to see Toby do better, but even Qualifying for the World Champs this year was amazing. He had surgery on his hip in the winter.

They show Michalski's third attempt, decent but it falls.

Otto now on his third attempt... lots of clapping from the home crowd... he makes it!! "fantastically vociferous crowd"

Cutts XXX

TV announcers still don't know what's going on, but what's new *sigh* they're still 100x better than the US crew.