Australia silver medallist is confident she can match Yaroslava Mahuchikh after the Ukrainian set a women’s high jump world record ahead of Paris 2024
‘I had such a fire in me’: Nicola Olyslagers ready to hit new heights as bar raised for Olympic final
Watching on that night just metres away were Australian competitors Eleanor Patterson and Nicola Olyslagers. The latter was the only other athlete to crack 2m. “I’ve been trying to figure out the 2.10m formula all year and she just unlocked it,” Olyslagers said after qualifying for the final on Sunday night “Now that she’s done that, I’ve gone ‘that’s it’. So we started training the next day and I had such a fire in me because I’d seen with my own eyes what was possible.
The extraordinary feat adds an additional layer of intrigue to an event in Paris that already loomed as one of. After the qualification round on Friday, Patterson and Olyslagers are poised for a run at the podium. Olyslagers cleared all of her three attempts, the highest at 1.95m, while Patterson had a single miss at 1.92m.Patterson said she didn’t panic when she saw the bar tumble, in a round that saw a long delay between jumps. “I was like, ‘no, I know I can clear this,” she said.
Patterson said whatever people have jumped before, the beauty of the Olympics is they have to perform on the day, and even Mahuchikh isn’t immune from the pressure. “Obviously it was an incredible jump, it was wonderful to see what’s humanly possible, but everyone starts from scratch.”, said she is on good terms with the Ukrainian. “She’s one of my favourite people to jump with, aside from Eleanor, right?”, she said.
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