If Canadian track and field is looking for a new face of the sport, pole vaulter Alysha Newman is almost ready for her close-up. Then I could say, ‘Listen, people told me this was impossible and I just made it possible.’“I need value behind my name.”She is building exactly that, step by step, vault by vault, meet by meet. It’s the only Diamond League meet held in North American. But it was good enough for seventh place and two important Diamond League points, which she needs to stockpile in order to qualify for the lucrative Diamond League Final in August in Zurich. Tokyo 2020 would be her second Olympic Games, and she laughs that she’d like to compete in five.

Source: National Post May 22, 2018 19:52 UTC