Alex Aberbuch was vice-world champion and three-time European champion in pole vaulting. The 49-year-old pole vaulter has been working for a month and a half for his living as a shop assistant in Tel Aviv.
"I have nothing to be embarrassed about, this is a living. Unfortunately, an athletics coach in Israel cannot make a living from this alone," Aberb Buch said. The CEO of the Athletics Association, Gal Levy, said: "We have indeed purchased a lot of equipment for the benefit of the recent European Championships and also for the Grand Slam next month. An equipment committee in the athletics union that met determined that the poles will remain in the stadiums used by the athletics Union" "I don't know how long I will do it, but I started as an intern to learn the work and I take it seriously, as I took everything I did in life. If I remember correctly, when I was world runner-up in Edmonton, I jumped with Asics. So here today I work in their store," he said.