Isinbayeva ready to return in early 2011

Pole vault great Yelena Isinbayeva plans to end her indefinite break from athletics next winter.



The only female pole vaulter to clear 5 metres decided to rest from athletics in April, but said today she was preparing for a comeback.



Isinbayeva said a break was necessary because she was under too much pressure.



The Russian star had won all the major competitions since the 2004 Athens Olympics until last August in Berlin at the world championships, where she failed to clear a height. Then at the world indoors in March in Qatar, she left without a medal, finishing fourth.