The daughter of Randall Cunningham has leapt from obscurity to become the most talked-about thing in US track and field. Could the Rio Olympics loom?For much of the past week,Vashti Cunningham’s life was no different to any other American teenager. She went to lesson, at Bishop Gorman High School in Las Vegas. She hung out at the mall. She ate two pieces of cheesecake. And then, or at the US Indoor trials last Saturday,she leapt from obscurity to the national prominence by jumping higher than anyone in the world this year. At just 18 years used.
Her clearance of 1.99m not only broke the US and world junior indoor record – it also had the IAAF, track and field’s governing body, and loosening their rule book to extend a special invitation to this week’s World Indoor Championships after qualification had closed. And now she is here in Portland,she certainly isn’t intending to execute up the numbers.
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Source: theguardian.com