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LYON (AFP) -- Former men's pole vault world record holder Renaud Lavillenie has undergone surgery on a left hamstring injury, the Frenchman said on Thursday, Sept. 14. France's Renaud Lavillenie. (AFP) "Operation went well, the hamstring tendon is repaired," Lavillenie said in a post on Instagram....

Screengrab from the tournament livestream courtesy of World Athletics' YouTube channel Olympic-bound pole vaulter EJ Obiena fell short of a podium finish at the prestigious Bauhaus-Galan Wanda Diamond League Meeting in Stockholm, Sweden after settling for fourth place over the weekend. Obiena...

EJ Obiena (TED ALJIBE / AFP) Olympic-bound pole vaulter EJ Obiena will be put into test when he goes up against the cream of the crop in the prestigious Meeting Hauts-de-France Pas-de Calais at the Arena Stade Couvert in Lievin early Wednesday (Tuesday night in France). In the start list released...

Tokyo Olympics-bound EJ Obiena hopes to make another podium finish when he competes in the Rome Diamond League Athletics on Thursday. (AFP File Photo) EJ Obiena guns for his finest performance against the best in the field on Thursday when he competes in the IAAF Rome Diamond League 2020 in Italy....

EJ Obiena, shown in this file photo, bested a star-studded field that included world champions and Olympic medalists. (TED ALJIBE / AFP) Pole vaulter EJ Obiena finally captured his first gold medal of the season by beating former Olympic medalists at the 59th Ostrava Golden Spike tournament in...