Allison Stokke and Alyce Caron
Allison Stokke, born in Newport Beach in March 1989, is one of the most well-known and wealthy Pole Vaulters. A photo of her in a track event for 17 year olds went viral in 2007 and made her an Olympic pole vaulter. Instagram and Twitter are among her most liked social networks. She is well known track and fields athlete, like Jessica Ennis Hill. According to the Los Angeles Times among others that Stokke was not seeking or advocate for this kind of attention. Brett Hutchins and David Rowe writing in the book Technology Power and Culture in the Network Society Brett Hutchins and David Rowe compared Stokke to the experiences of American female soccer players Alex Morgan and Hope Solo who were sexually portrayed and made fetishized by the media and in a way which the authors believed was demeaning to their achievements as athletes. In their Technology Power and Culture in the Network Society, David Rowe and Brett Hutchins compare Stokke with American soccer players Hope Solo and Alex M...