at the end of the day, wernerjumps on his scooter to look for her along her usual route, and she slowlyof the world's top male pole vaulters leapt at the chance to compete against each other today, from their own back gardens. the event, described as the ultimate garden clash, was streamed live by the governing body, world athletics. the men competed via video link from france and two american states. our sports correspondent, joe wilson, watched the action. these days are testing sporting imagination to the limit. in three back gardens of the world that limit was specifically five metres — up. former olympic champion, renaud lavillenie, was at home in france. two—time world champion, sam kendricks competed from oxford, mississippi. and what a back drop for kendricks... well, the gloriously named mondo duplantis was in louisiana, although he competes for sweden. mondo in the lead at the moment. and it is the world record—holder. five metres is almost nothing to these men, the idea was that they would sail over the bar every time so no one needed to be there to replace it. the challenge