The bar couldn't be set much higher for Dragila
Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 4:40 am
Murphy: The bar couldn't be set much higher for Dragila
She's 35, recently had Achilles' tendon surgery, and she's talking Olympics
Edition Date: 10-10-2006
Source[list]Stacy Dragila conquered the doubters once before. More precisely, the Idaho State graduate soared over them.
In 2000, five years after Dragila decided to see how high she could fly, she captured the first Olympic gold medal in the women's pole vault at the Summer Games in Sydney.
"When I first started doing pole vault, so many people kept saying women couldn't do the pole vault, that they didn't have the determination to jump like the men do,'' she said. "When I kept hearing that over and over, I so badly wanted to prove those people wrong and show those people I could do it."
Take that.
Now 35, Dragila is trying to do it again. Trying to prove that those who claim she is too old and too broken down are wrong â€â€
She's 35, recently had Achilles' tendon surgery, and she's talking Olympics
Edition Date: 10-10-2006
Source[list]Stacy Dragila conquered the doubters once before. More precisely, the Idaho State graduate soared over them.
In 2000, five years after Dragila decided to see how high she could fly, she captured the first Olympic gold medal in the women's pole vault at the Summer Games in Sydney.
"When I first started doing pole vault, so many people kept saying women couldn't do the pole vault, that they didn't have the determination to jump like the men do,'' she said. "When I kept hearing that over and over, I so badly wanted to prove those people wrong and show those people I could do it."
Take that.
Now 35, Dragila is trying to do it again. Trying to prove that those who claim she is too old and too broken down are wrong â€â€