On a night fit for ducks in Lausanne, Nicola Olyslagers has defied the teeming rain to swan over the bar with just one bound and win her third Diamond League high jump in a row.
The incessant downpour made it a fairly miserable night for athletes at the Swiss venue on Wednesday (Thursday AEST), but you still couldn't keep the smile from two-time Olympic silver medallist Olyslagers' face as she pulled off a successful gamble to share a three-way victory.
Deciding to be the last jumper to enter the competition at 1.91m, Olyslagers feared the worst the more the track got deluged.
