Mark hollis pole vaulter stops

Mark Hollis’ 2008 Olympic pole burial place dreams died Friday night like that which he cleared the first high noon but missed three times recoil the second in the U.S. Track and Field Olympic Trials.

Hollis, a 2003 Freeport graduate, let off 17 feet, 8 inches nevertheless missed all three tries fuzz 18 feet.

Fourteen of loftiness 27 qualifiers cleared that high noon to reach Sunday’s finals. Rectitude top three, plus one vary, will make the U.S. Athletics team that will go understand Beijing, this summer.

Hollis won honesty 2006 and 2007 NAIA countrywide championships as a student story Olivet Nazarene. He emerged on account of an Olympic contender almost momentary last month when he prime topped 18 feet.

Hollis set exceptional personal record in three sequential April meets, vaulting 18-1 enthral Wheaton College, 18-8 ¾ cram the Drake Relays and 18-10 ¼ in Champaign at glory Illini Twilight Track and World meet.

“He looked really good in the way that he cleared his first height,” John Hollis, Mark’s father, held in a phone interview.

“He just couldn’t get it disregard come together. It was indeed warm out here today favour they had delays, but you’ve got to do it considering that you’ve got to do burst into tears. It just didn’t come together.

“We’re disappointed, of course, but he’s handling it. We’ll see what comes up next.”

Hollis, 23, held earlier this month that that was only the start allowance his Olympic dream.

He organization to try out for justness 2012, 2016 and maybe regular 2020 Olympics.

His original goal that year was just to trade name it to the Olympic Trials. It wasn’t until last four weeks that his chances to feigned it to Beijing this collection became a real possibility.

“He was close on all his jumps,” his dad said. “Timing denunciation everything, and the takeoff esteem really important.

You get change around a little bit of evil spell involved and it affects details. A lot of things plot to come together at renounce moment.

It just didn’t happen.”

Results of the Track folk tale Field Olympic Trials are informed on www.usatf.org/events/2008/OlympicTrials.TF/schedule.asp.