Renaud Lavillenie speaks, after his third World Indoor Championships gold

Renaud Lavillenie, photo by PhotoRun.net

Renaud Lavillenie, aka @airlavillenie, is the three World Indoor PV gold, winning tonight in an epic battle at 5.95m! With three good attempts at 6 meters, one which may have broke a tooth, Renaud was all smiles on Sunday night, March 4. @runblogrun and @theshoeaddicts interviewed le roi du saut Ã la perche!

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Renuad Lavillenie is an athlete of some complexity. He is immensley talented and is continuously challenging himself. He has come back from some crazy injuries.

Renaud Lavillenie, photo by PhotoRun.net

But what impresses Renaud the most? In this interview, there weas much pleasure that Renaud took from masterminding the elite Pole Vault competition he had the weekend prior to the world indoors.

Also, this guy loves the challenges of the pole vault. Listen and watch this intereview and you will get a good idea on where Renaud Lavillenie has been and where he wants to go in 2018.

Renuad Lavillenie, photo by PhotoRun.net

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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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