Pole vaulter's son leaps into AFL football

By Emma Quayle
Updated October 3 2014 - 12:08pm, first published 1:13am

Oleg Markov was born in Belarus, is the son of a world champion pole vaulter, speaks Russian at home and is studying to become a geologist. If things go the way he hopes, he will be drafted to an AFL club at the end of November. "It's probably not the most usual way that people make their way to the game," he said. "But everyone has to find it in their own way."

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