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Tiến lên (Vietnamese: tiến lên, tiến: advance; lên: to go up, up; literally: "go forward"; also Romanized Tien Len) is a shedding-type card game originating in Vietnam. [1] It may be considered Vietnam's national card game, and is common in communities where Vietnamese migration has occoured.
The men's pole vault has been present on the Olympic athletics programme since the first Summer Olympics in 1896. The women's event is one of the latest additions to the programme, first being contested at the 2000 Summer Olympics – along with the addition of the hammer throw, this brought the women's field event programme to parity with the ...
Zheng Shangyou (Chinese: 争上游; pinyin: Zhēng Shàngyóu; lit. 'struggling upstream') is a Chinese shedding card game similar to President and Big Two. It is the game from which Tien Len and other similar games are derived. [citation needed] It is popular in Shanghai, Zhejiang and Jiangsu.
The women's pole vault event at the 2020 Summer Olympics took place on 2 and 5 August 2021 at the Japan National Stadium. [1] 31 athletes from 19 nations competed. [2]In her first Olympics, 30-year-old American Katie Nageotte won the gold medal by 5cm with a clearance of 4.90 metres.
PARIS — A few months before she traveled to the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials earlier this summer, pole vaulter Brynn King began researching how to transport her poles from Rochester, New ...
Almost a year later, Kennedy and Moon returned to an international stage on Wednesday night for the Olympic women’s pole vault final. They fittingly arrived in Paris as the co-favorites to win ...
Illinois native and professional pole vaulter Emily Grove missed making the U.S. Olympic team by six spots and about one inch, placing ninth in June at the U.S. Olympic Trials in Eugene, Oregon.
The tip of the vaulting pole is angled higher than eye level until three paces from takeoff, when the pole tip descends efficiently, amplifying run speed as the pole is planted into the vault box. The faster the vaulter can run and the more efficient their take-off is, the greater the kinetic energy that can be achieved and used during the vault.