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How do pole vaulters achieve such precise pole bends?

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Vaulters bend their poles to convert their forward sprinting speed into elastic potential energy, which then springs back to launch them skyward.

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A pole vaulter's pole bends into a deep U-shape, storing enough energy to lift a grown man 20 feet in the air—like a compressed spring that was slowly wound up by a sprint.