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This Is Pole Vaulting Inside A Shopping Mall
Such a Hot Topic right now, you guys. Sears-iously.
Drake Relays Pole Vault in the Mall is really held in a shopping mall.
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It's the only event of its kind. The venue: Jordan Creek Town Center in West Des Moines, Iowa.
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It's super legit. This is Renaud Lavillenie, gold medalist at the 2012 London Olympic Games.
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...And this is Bjorn Otto, the 2012 Olympic silver medalist. (Not a J. Crew model, that we know of.)
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Otto won the men's "Mall Vault" with a height of 5.8m. That's just over 19'.
View this video on YouTube
Watch it happen.
Yarisley Silva, 2012 Olympic silver medalist, won the women's division with a personal best of 4.82m.
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But the real winners are the fans. How often can you watch pole vaulting from ABOVE the athlete?
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And it's totally free to attend. (Those kids are like, "AHHHH GOLD MEDALIST!")
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It's so crazy awesome I can't even.
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One night you're just heading toward Williams-Sonoma and you're like...
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Jordan Scott, 2013 USA Indoor Pole Vault champ, is all: "Hey, I can see Lane Bryant from here!"
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Mega-bonus: Huckleberry, the official world's most beautiful bulldog, was in the crowd.
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You may remember Huck from recent Buzzfeed fame. (Or HuffPo, Yahoo News, a radio station in Singapore, etc...) He won the 34th Annual Beautiful Bulldog Contest at Drake University on Monday.
BEST. SPORTING EVENT. EVER.
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