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[nevetsllim]

Apparently Issy has withdrawn

[az2004]

hey it's good vaulting weather in russia...

suspect, the conditions and the chances of not winning helped her thought processes...

[Powell]

They'll need a jump-off to decide the winner, just as last year. Feofanova and Spiegelburg are tied for first place.

[Powell]

Failures for both vaulters at 4.77 and 4.72. I wonder how much lower they'll have to go before either of them clears. They must be pretty tired already.

[Powell]

Spiegelburg cleared 4.67 and is the winner of the competition :!:

[BruceFlorman]

.                    440 450 460 470 477 477 472 467
1 Silke Spiegelburg  xo  o   o   xxo xxx x   x   o   4.70 =PB
1 Svetlana Feofanova o   xo  o   xxo xxx x   x   x   4.70
3 Monika Pyrek       xo  o   xo  xxo xxx             4.70
4 Yulia Golubchikova xo  o   xxx                     4.50
5 Tatyana Polnova    xxo xo  xxx                     4.50
6 Carolin Hingst     xo  xxo xxx                     4.50
6 Fabiana Murer      xo  xxo xxx                     4.50
  Yelena Isinbaeva                                   DNS

[26mi235]

Feofanova finished with 6 misses and missed 8 of the last 9 -- 13 vaults for the top two are a bit much.

[croflash]

I wasn't surprised that Isinbaeva withdrew seeing the conditions, however there was no announcement when the competitors were introduced. If someone has no idea about the background, they might think she wasn't even there or didn't want to jump.