Who is Blanca Vlasic and what are they famous for?
Article excerpt: IF high jumpers, with their spaghetti limbs and balletic routines, are the catwalk models of international athletics, then Croatia’s Blanka Vlasic is the highest-paid supermodel. What else to expect from a woman named after the city of Casablanca in Morocco, made legend in the romantic film of the same name. Her father, Josko, who held the decathlon national record in Croatia, and her mother, a national-level cross country skier, named her Blanka shortly after he had appeared in the Mediterranean Games in Casablanca. In her home country Blanka Vlasic is a multi-media star, as much for her looks as her athletic gifts, in the same way that Olympic pole vault silver medallist Tatiana Grigorieva became a pin-up girl in Australia after her success in Sydney. Vlasic does not mind striking a pose either, whether that be in her exaggerated run-up as she readies herself to go over the bar, or afterwards when she celebrates clearances that are better than any other’s in the worl
