ANSWER: Olympics

Bamboo

Pole vaulting was included from the first modern Olympics held in 1896 although it took until the Sydney 2000 Olympics for the event to be opened up to women.

The poles that were used originally in the sport were fashioned from tree limbs. Around the time of World War II the poles were manufactured from bamboo, but from the 1950s on the poles have been made from fiberglass, which is much lighter and allows the runner to get a faster run up.

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