Athletics: Pole vault queen eyes comeback

VOLGOGRAD: Russia’s two-time Olympic pole-vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva is targeting an international comeback this season after a series of setbacks last year. After astonishing the world by winning Olympic gold in Athens and Beijing and lifting the world record to well above five metres, her aura of invincibility slipped when she failed to record a height in the final stage of the 2009 Berlin world championships and only came fourth in last year’s world indoor championships in Doha. Isinbayeva, who has only participated in five events in the last two years would be a springboard for the London Olympics and more world records.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 9^th, 2011.