Feature: Isinbayeva emulates Bubka
(Reuters)
Updated: 2005-07-29 11:40

What she could not necessarily provide to order was a world indoor record in her first competitive vault of the season less than two months into the new year.

GREAT BUBKA

Isinbayeva and Bubka

Bubka, who has been less than complimentary about the standard of women's pole vaulting in the past, was hoping for a world record to add extra lustre to his competition. On the eve of the event he told reporters he believed Isinbayeva would be the first woman past five metres, equivalent to his pioneering six-metres leap.

"Well if the great Bubka said this, I think it is quite possible," Isinbayeva responded. "As you know, human possibilities are unlimited. So I greatly hope that I will one day do what the great Bubka says."

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