Yes, I broke the dutch record again: 4,35m. I knew it would go better than this indoorseason but it is still very nice to see some prove. I did it in Kassel. I started on 4.00m, than 4,10m, 4,20m, 4,30m, and 4,35, all in the first attempt. I had the feeling I even had some space to spare but you can see it for yourself at www.Stabhochsprung.com. So up to 4.40 and I finally have to loose my doubts. I can actually jump pretty well and it's only getting better. 4.40 would mean a ticket to the World Championships in Edmonton. This would be my first outdoor Worldchampionships and I'm allready looking forward to it.

After I broke the record I had to get a dopingcontrol, otherwise the record will not be ratified. This was pretty complicated. The meeting organizer had arranged for a doping doctor, but he canceld at the last moment, and now there wasn't any dopingdoctor at the meeting. So I asked the organiser to arrange one, but they couldn't reach him that evening allthough they tried untill 12 at night. Because we had to drive a 8 hour trip to Poland next day we left at eight in the morning and I callled our athletics federation, Luckily there was some good news: I had 48 hours to get the tests done. So I thought it would be easy, on the competition next day in Poland there would probably be a doping doctor. Next day I asked for a test, Unluckily the people at the medical station at the track didn't understand much english and I couldn't explain them I needed to be tested before the competition began, because otherwise I would be to late. Luckily I got them to telephone me as soon as the doctor would appear. This happened when I was warming up before the competition. So I decided to go in between the competition and the warming up. So I did and it went very fast. I filled in the papers and I noticed they didn't need to fill in the time. So I'm still wondering how important it was to do it before the competition. I'm definitely sure I let it get to my concentration for the competition. So I only jumped 4.10m