You could write a book on Nicola Olyslagers and her high jumping. Actually, she already has.

Australia’s newest world champion has chronicled every jump she has ever taken in small diaries. She adds notes about her jumps and bits of whimsy. She draws pictures of her jumps while she is competing. She clears a height and scurries over to make a note. She’s as known for the book and her faith – the book is inscribed with “For His Glory” on the front – as she is for jumping very high.

When she clicked with her first two-metre jump on Sunday night she knew she had nailed a tweak in technique she had been working on and so drew a stick figure in her book of her going over the bar at just the angle she had wanted.

When the rain came hosing down in Tokyo during the final, and athletes sheltere

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