Sentence examples for french pole from inspiring English sources

Faced with a loss of sponsorship income when a deal with Nike ended recently, a French pole vaulter, Romain Mesnil, ran naked through the streets of Paris, carrying only his pole — and then posted the video on YouTube.

In an Olympics that has seen a few unsavory incidents — the Egyptian judoka who refused to shake hands with his Israeli opponent, the booing of a French pole vaulter by the Brazilian crowd — Hamblin and D'Agostino provided a memory that captured the Olympic spirit.

It's not all about the cycling, though it is quite a lot about the cycling: But day 11 had its low points, too, not least the booing of French pole vaulter Renaud Lavillenie as he received his silver medal behind home winner Thiago Braz Da Silva.

The booing of French pole vaulter Renaud Lavillenie as local hero Thiago Braz da Silva boinged his way to gold has to be on there, but pipped by the boxing judging row (succinctly precised by Irish boxer Michael Conlan: "They're fucking cheats"), and Shaunae Miller's legal but startling dive across the line to deny Allyson Felix 400m gold.

He will be joined by fellow Olympic champion and world record-holder David Rudisha in the 800m and French pole vaulter Renaud Lavillenie.

In French pole vaulter Renaud Lavillenie there is a man who earlier this year broke one of the great enduring barriers in the sport, Sergey Bubka's 21-year-old record of 6.15m.

In 2009, after his contract with Nike expired, the French pole-vaulter Romain Mesnil underscored his plight by appearing in a video that made it seem as if he were running naked with a pole through the streets of Paris.

The booing of the Germany side before the 2014 semi-final or of the French pole-vaulter Renaud Lavillenie at the Olympics simply for turning up and trying to win came from the same source.

I can think of no Portuguese remnants, though there have been a few notable French Poles.

You know we do need to work with Germans, French, Poles and others to decide how to handle Mr Putin, how to make a European contribution to the Middle East crisis which is so dangerous to us all..

She already had an idea for a new business, and the recent creation of the Aerospace Valley in Aquitaine and Midi-Pyrenees--one of the new French "poles of competitiveness" that aim to bring research and industry closer--had provided new incentives for entrepreneurship in the region.