Jenn Suhr walked with a purpose over to the stands to see her husband, who gingerly wrapped an American flag around her shoulders while she sobbed into his chest. Yes, they've come a long way together. From training in a pair of huts connected together to form a jumping pit -- to winning an Olympic gold medal on her sport's grandest stage. Suhr, who won the silver medal in Beijing and has since fought through an Achilles injury and a long, mysterious, sometimes-debilitating illness that turned out to be a gluten allergy, got the Olympic gold she needed to round out her resume. "It's very emotional," she said. "It's something you work very hard for for four years. And heartbreak and joy and some more heartbreak. To overcome it and come out on top, is something that whenever I thought of, I started crying. I knew it was going to be emotional." She vaulted 15 feet, 7 inches (4.75 meters) to defeat Cuba's Yarisley Silva, who cleared the same height but lost on a tiebreaker because she had one more miss in the competition. Read more: http://espn.go.com/olympics/summer/...suhr-ends-yelena-isinbayeva-pole-vault-streak
The weather was not ideal for pole vaulting and many of the other vaulters faltered. She came through and beat the reigning olympic champion.
