(1) The story begins when Cassandra (Linda Molin), the pretty star vaulter with a strange look in her eye, takes Emma under her wing.
(2) Distance runners presented with 68 fractures, skiers 12, sprinters 10, orienteering runners 9, vaulters 3, and football-players 3 fractures.
(3) Bach saw off a late effort by his five rivals – the Puerto Rican Richard Carrion, the Swiss lawyer Denis Oswald, the international boxing chief Dr Ck Wu, the Singaporean businessman Ng Ser Miang and the former pole vaulter Sergey Bubka – to work together to stop him.
(4) The Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva has accused anti-doping and Olympic chiefs of discrimination against Russia and violating her human rights.