Homemade facility helps Suhr vault into history

Defending Olympic pole vault champion Jenn Suhr was injury-free, avoided the flu bug this season and the warm weather made it easier to train at her homemade facility in western New York.

So she scouted the area for a meet and found one in Brockport, about 15 miles from her home outside of Rochester.

"When I'm ready to go, it doesn't matter where I jump," Suhr said on Tuesday, three days after she broke her own indoor world record by clearing 5.03 meters (16 feet, 6 inches). "Sometimes you can't predict when it's going to happen, you just know that the possibilities are a lot higher that it's going to happen."