Jax Thoirs pauses, considering how to best describe the addiction of a pole vaulter to the rush that comes from a successful clearance of the bar. "You just want that feeling of falling again and again," offers the 18-year-old. "All the way through, you are concentrating on your technique, but that moment when you are over the bar and can enjoy your journey down to the mat is just fantastic."
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The rise and falls of Jax Thoirs is a truly uplifting story
THE hours of training, the sacrifices, the pain and suffering; all of it for the sake of a solitary snatched sensation, perhaps lasting little more than a second.
