Vashti’s training regimen these last few months? Avoiding illness amid a global heath crisis, obviously. “I think the one thing I know I am going to change when I get closer to the Olympics is who I ...

Rachel Glenn, second, Charity Hufnagel, first, and Vashti Cunningham, third place, pose with their medals and flags after competing in the women's high jump final on Day Four of the 2024 U.S. Olympic ...

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Vashti Cunningham was determined to win gold at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. She was 18, competing in the high jump, and eager to live up to the expectations of her last name, which is ...

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Vashti Cunningham flutters her fingers, presses her lips tight into a determined scowl, bores her eyes into the ground, rocks backward and, on a calm January afternoon in Las Vegas, explodes. Her ...

With a leap that cleared 6'6.25 in the high jump in March, Vashti Cunningham became the world indoor champion. She was still in high school. Now in Rio, the 18-year-old is no longer a high schooler, ...

(RNS) — It’s sad to see a carefully preserved Jewish historical tradition sacrificed on the altar of a contemporary ism. On Purim, observant Jewish men, to varying degrees, imbibe strong drink. And ...

Vashti Cunningham, the daughter of a NFL quarterback Randall Cunningham and pro South African ballerina Felicity deJager, is poised to become the world's best high jumper. This story first appeared in ...

“Is Vashti the evil queen of the Purim story?” my daughter asked me after a recent Hebrew school class. Vashti, of course, was the erstwhile queen of Persia, according to the Bible’s Book of Esther.