Isinbayeva signaled her return to the dizzy heights of the event in February with an indoor world record of 5.01 meters to out-jump her opponents in Stockholm by 29 centimeters.

When asked, Isinbayeva's coach, Vitaly Petrov, who also coached Soviet pole vault legend Sergey Bubka, starts by staring at the ground. He's trying to find a satisfactory answer that will ...

Russian pole vault star Yelena Isinbayeva faced outrage Friday from activists and fellow athletics legends after backing Russia's controversial new anti-gay law and saying competitors at the Sochi ...

Russia’s pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva attends a press conference in Moscow, Russia. Two-time Olympic pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva says on Monday, May 23, 2016 she will file suit if ...

Isinbayeva took the anti-doping post in December. She will remain as a board member, though not chair, according to comments on Friday by Vitaly Smirnov, the head of an anti-doping advisory body ...

Isinbayeva won gold medals at the 2004 Athens Olympics and 2008 Beijing Games. She took bronze four years ago in London and will be elsewhere in Rio rather than watching the women's Olympic pole ...

She has forfeited her right to any and all such positions anywhere in the civilized world. Yelena Isinbayeva’s words have unwittingly — and witlessly — made her a symbol. Of prejudice.

By Justin PalmerMOSCOW, Aug 14 (Reuters) – Watching her every move like a hawk from his front row seat in the Luzhniki Stadium, Yefgeny Trofimov never lost faith that Yelena Isinbayeva could ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Yelena Isinbayeva says she has stepped down as chair of the supervisory board at the scandal-hit Russian anti-doping agency.

Isinbayeva, 27, was as graceless in defeat as she has been imperious in victory. Asked if the end of her reign would encourage other vaulters, Isinbayeva replied, “I think somebody is just lucky ...

Isinbayeva has been a frequent critic of WADA investigations of Russian doping. RUSADA was suspended by WADA in 2015 over allegations its staff helped to cover up widespread doping.