EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — American Jenn Suhr has been paying more attention to pole vaulting than politics lately.
Now that she's in the Olympics, the defending champion says that, sure, she'd like to see her biggest rival there, too.
"I'd like to compete against the best," Suhr said Sunday at U.S. Track and Field Trials, when asked about the prospect of facing Russian world-record holder Yelena Isinbayeva. "I was told that I was misinformed on some things when I made my comment before. Maybe people know a little more than I do, I don't know. If everything is honest, then yes.