IAAF Athletics Diamond League meeting - Pole Vault Men - Stade Olympique de la Pontaise, Lausanne, Switzerland, July 6, 2017 - Sam Kendricks of U.S. in action. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
(Reuters) - As he cleaned up after horses in his father's barn, a teenaged Sam Kendricks thought how cool it would be to travel the world and pole vault in the Olympics.
A decade later, the globe-trotting Mississippi native still calls himself "a small-town boy who loves to have big adventures".
