And the worst part? When people decided to speak up about the injustice, some went about it the completely wrong way.

(CNN)-- There are few sports that are so dominated by a single person like the way the women's pole vault is ruled by 26-year Russian Yelena Isinbayeva. Every time the world and Olympic champion ...

Kansas City, Mo.? Pole-vaulting isn’t considered a lifetime sport. But Don Livasy has a different viewpoint — one from eight to 10 feet in the air. At age 72, he’s still flying over the bar ...

Armand 'Mondo' Duplantis has taken the world by storm, bringing pole vaulting into the homes of even casual sports fans. At just 24, the Swedish-American superstar has already made history ...