Yelena Isinbayeva signs five-year extension of contract with Russian army, from EME News

Yelena Isinbayeva, Moscow 2013 (World Champs), photo by PhotoRun.net

MOSCOW (RUS): Olympic winner Yelena Isinbayeva has signed a five-year extension to her contract with the Russian army, a news report said Wednesday. The 32-year-old pole vaulter, who was made a captain of the Russian army in 2008, will serve as a track and field coach for CSKA Moscow, which is the Central Sports Army Club, the TASS news agency cited club spokesman Sergei Vlasov as saying. Isinbayeva should be back competing in 2016.

(Editor’s note: What does this mean? I am not sure, except that for many years, athletes in many companies continued to compete while being in the military services. Does this mean that Isinbayeva will compete for five more years? Who knows? We will have to see how Isinbayeva competes in 2016.)

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Larry Eder
Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys. Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."
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