Article from New Straits Times, Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Before this, I already talk about local athletes, but now I will talk about international athlete which is Yelena Isinbayeva, a Russian Pole Vault. For World and Olympic Pole Vault Campion Yelena Isinbayeva has been so dominant over the last four years. For her, winning gold in Beijing may just be formality for her. Yelena is one of the athletes that will be competing in Beijing Olympic Games 2008. She wanted to prove to all that she still good in this sport. She still has the same hunger for success that drives him to be the best she can do it.
Maybe none of you familiar with this athlete, so here I will talk a little bit about her biography. Yelena Isinbayena was born on Jun 3, 1982, in Volgograd Russia. She is 26 years old. As a young child, Yelena took up gymnastics when she was 5 years old, and continued until she was 15, when she reached 5’8 ½, she was deemed too tall to compete in the sport.
In November 1997, she took up pole vaulting. In 1999, she competed at the World Youth Games in Poland and won the gold medal. She went on to compete at the European Junior Championship in 2001 and won yet gold. Over the next few years, she continued to improve and in the 2004 Athens Olympics, she took the gold. She set a world outdoor record on August 12, 2005 of 5.01 m (16 feet 5 ¼ inches), only to beat it yesterday at 5.03 m (16 feet 6 inches). Yelena became the first women to break the five metre barrier in July 2005 before vaulting 5.01 at the World Championship in Helsinki the following month. She has stated her desire to surpass Bubka’s tally of 35 world record. Bubka is also an athlete of pole vault from Ukrain.
I am very impress with her, a Russian woman who is confidence to winning gold in Beijing. She believes that if she do the best, it’s impossible to beat her. She told press that she tends to use her first vault to warm up, the second to clinch victory and the third to attempt a world record. So, I think that all my information that I want to share with all of you. I wish good luck to Yelena. All the best for you.
As we all know that there is not many Malaysian people involve with this sport. I think maybe there is a reason for that. So, what do you think my friends? Do you have any view about why not many Malaysian people like to involve with this sports? For me, I suggest that we can do something which is we can encourage young people involve with pole vault since they are young or since they in a primary school.
Thank you.
Before this, I already talk about local athletes, but now I will talk about international athlete which is Yelena Isinbayeva, a Russian Pole Vault. For World and Olympic Pole Vault Campion Yelena Isinbayeva has been so dominant over the last four years. For her, winning gold in Beijing may just be formality for her. Yelena is one of the athletes that will be competing in Beijing Olympic Games 2008. She wanted to prove to all that she still good in this sport. She still has the same hunger for success that drives him to be the best she can do it.
Maybe none of you familiar with this athlete, so here I will talk a little bit about her biography. Yelena Isinbayena was born on Jun 3, 1982, in Volgograd Russia. She is 26 years old. As a young child, Yelena took up gymnastics when she was 5 years old, and continued until she was 15, when she reached 5’8 ½, she was deemed too tall to compete in the sport.
In November 1997, she took up pole vaulting. In 1999, she competed at the World Youth Games in Poland and won the gold medal. She went on to compete at the European Junior Championship in 2001 and won yet gold. Over the next few years, she continued to improve and in the 2004 Athens Olympics, she took the gold. She set a world outdoor record on August 12, 2005 of 5.01 m (16 feet 5 ¼ inches), only to beat it yesterday at 5.03 m (16 feet 6 inches). Yelena became the first women to break the five metre barrier in July 2005 before vaulting 5.01 at the World Championship in Helsinki the following month. She has stated her desire to surpass Bubka’s tally of 35 world record. Bubka is also an athlete of pole vault from Ukrain.
I am very impress with her, a Russian woman who is confidence to winning gold in Beijing. She believes that if she do the best, it’s impossible to beat her. She told press that she tends to use her first vault to warm up, the second to clinch victory and the third to attempt a world record. So, I think that all my information that I want to share with all of you. I wish good luck to Yelena. All the best for you.
As we all know that there is not many Malaysian people involve with this sport. I think maybe there is a reason for that. So, what do you think my friends? Do you have any view about why not many Malaysian people like to involve with this sports? For me, I suggest that we can do something which is we can encourage young people involve with pole vault since they are young or since they in a primary school.
Thank you.
2 comments:
Good information.. maybe later you can tell history of our malaysia athletes
Thank you Madam for your comment... later on i will tell about history of Qabil Ambak, an equastrian athletes...
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