KOCKENGEN, Netherlands (AP) — A split second of flight, then a landing on the sand — or a splashdown in a canal. That's the thrill of the Dutch sport of “fierljeppen” — far leaping — which sees ...

After the Air and Space Museum, it’s now the Arena Grand Paris that will host the Perche aux étoiles, a pole vaulting meet ...

She dreams of flying high in the maroon and white uniform of Texas A&M. Of competing in pole vault events held on city streets. Of wearing the red and white of her birth nation in an Olympics. The ...

Virginia Marshall can do anything except pick herself up from the floor. At least, that’s what she declares one morning in June after completing a dizzying, gravity-defying four-minute routine. The ...

In the annual Gloucester greasy pole competition, where participants take turns running down a greased pole to capture a flag before falling into the water, a 20-year-old came out victorious. Nick ...

GLOUCESTER — As a thick fog rolled over Gloucester Harbor, a man in a white T-shirt stepped out onto a 40-foot greased telephone pole suspended above the surf. He slipped and fell into the water. For ...