Pole vaulting explained by athletefrom @olympics

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Pole vaulting is an extreme sport. You break a pole, you you're becoming a an official pole vaulter. So if you're not if you haven't break a pole yet, you're not an official pole vaulter. Our bag fits 10 poles. No, yeah, I would say I'm around, like, eight to 10 poles. The flexibility of, of the pole is, it varies and it's, is different. So if you want to, you know, to jump higher, you need to get the stiffer pole. And, yeah, as as I no, basically, the goal of pole holding is jump as high as you rank. But in order to do that, you have to grab the stiffest and the longest pole. So that's why we have long poles, stiff poles. So, you know, when we're feeling good, we can grab the the strongest one and, you know, try to achieve a big jump. You know, it's it's, you you never know when the pole's gonna break. But, yeah, it's, it's something that it happens so fast. It hurts a lot. But, yeah, it's it's