6/13/08

Jenn Stuczynski would like nothing better than to end the freakish dominance of Russian pole vaulting sensation Yelena Isinbayeva, the reigning Olympic, World and European champion.

Earlier this season, 26-year-old Stuczynski broke her own American record in the event with a jump of 4.90m at the Adidas Track Classic in Carson, Calif. Not satisfied, she had the audacity to ask that the bar be raised to 5.02m -- one centimeter higher than Isinbayeva’s world record.