Curious rush-hour commuters paused to see what all the fuss was about, before shuffling off to catch their buses and trains home. Surely, McCartney, the surprise bronze medalist at last year's Rio de Janiero Olympics, had never performed in a more bizarre setting than Auckland's Britomart Atrium. "But I have jumped into the back of cafés before, so there have been some weird ones. Canadian Alysha Newman, a bronze medalist at the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games, conquered her warm-up gremlins to dramatically scale 4.40m. McCartney has another chance to challenge that national mark on Sunday, when she contests the International Track Challenge at AUT Millennium in Mairangi Bay.

Source: New Zealand Herald February 22, 2017 09:29 UTC