Rachel Glenn, second, Charity Hufnagel, first, and Vashti Cunningham, third place, pose with their medals and flags after competing in the women's high jump final on Day Four of the 2024 U.S. Olympic ...

Vashti Cunningham flutters her fingers, presses her lips tight into a determined scowl, bores her eyes into the ground, rocks backward and, on a calm January afternoon in Las Vegas, explodes. Her ...

Vashti’s training regimen these last few months? Avoiding illness amid a global heath crisis, obviously. “I think the one thing I know I am going to change when I get closer to the Olympics is who I ...

Vashti Cunningham of the United States wins gold in the Women’s High Jump Finalduring day four of the IAAF World Indoor Championships at Oregon Convention Center on March 20, 2016 in Portland, Oregon.

Vashti Cunningham was determined to win gold at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. She was 18, competing in the high jump, and eager to live up to the expectations of her last name, which is ...

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With a leap that cleared 6'6.25 in the high jump in March, Vashti Cunningham became the world indoor champion. She was still in high school. Now in Rio, the 18-year-old is no longer a high schooler, ...

Vashti Cunningham’s Olympic star is rising. On July 3, at age 18, she became the youngest track-and-field Olympian in 36 years, according to NBC sports. Cunningham earned that distinction when she ...

Vashti Cunningham flutters her fingers, presses her lips tight into a determined scowl, bores her eyes into the ground, rocks backward and, on a calm January afternoon in Las Vegas, explodes. Her ...

Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its ...