Where It All Started
So, the photo below is the same one that first put her in the spotlight. It was 2007 and Stokke was competing in New York when the famous photo was captured by a journalist for a Californian track and field website. The journalist added the photos online and bam! May arrived and the photo was re-posted by a sports blog known as ‘With Leather’. This particular blog has a very large male fanbase, who immediately began to remark on Stokke’s attractiveness – she was quite young when this photo was posted. Oh, and the heading the blog chose: “Pole Vaulting is Sexy, Barely Legal”.

Where It All Started