Pole vaulting is one of the more outlandish Olympic events. The primary instruments of the sport are curious creations—big sticks, between 10 and 17 feet in length, that certain track & field ...

Mary Serritella competes and performs here in Los Angeles and abroad. Her passion for the sport challenges society’s conceptions of age. “I just didn’t want to absorb that ‘I can’t’ attitude.” Her ...

After an appearance on “Seinfeld” in 1997, the pole took on a life of its own as the embodiment of the anti-holiday spirit. By Tim Heffernan Let’s make a Festivus pole. We’ll be recreating the classic ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters. At Vox, our mission is to help you make sense of the world — and that work has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our own. We ...

The pandemic led me to the pole. Let me explain. Prior to 2021, I had never been strong in my life. In fact, I was pretty damn weak. It was so bad that from the moment I booked a flight, I would start ...

Just like any other form of expression, you can choose to be sensual on any apparatus, dance form, or whatever you do A few months ago, I posted a photo of myself doing a pretty tough pose on the pole ...

While pole dancing has a darker association as an exploitative occupation, there are women with chronic pain who have found (and built) a new love for their body, incredible strength to manage the ...

There is running, there is jumping, there is throwing things. And then there is the pole vault. On the one hand, it’s totally part of the fabric: on the climactic, final afternoon of the first modern ...

"It's like – I can be ME! Somebody who's actually flawed and scared..." National Geographic has revealed the first official trailer for a new explore-the-world documentary series called Pole to Pole ...

In the dimly lit basement of Body & Pole, a sprawling three-level fitness studio in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood, Sam Doblick is addressing a room of pole-dancing hopefuls. Slim-hipped and barefoot ...

The giant Santa statue near the Santa Claus House in the town of North Pole, Alaska Stuart Westmorland / Getty Images It wasn’t the actual North Pole. But the fact that it was over 1,700 miles from it ...