French pole vaulter Renaud Lavillenie returned to the athletics tracks this week. The 37-year-old underwent hamstring surgery in September.
Lavilenie has until June 30 to meet the minimums for the Paris 2024 Olympics, i.e. 5.82 m. The former world record holder was filmed this Monday performing a jump.. “You can’t imagine how happy I am with this long-awaited moment,” he wrote, accompanying the image of his jump.