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A new World Cup gold hunt for Armand Duplantis awaits soon.
But before that, he is current in the TV box in another way.
Now very harsh criticism is directed at TV4 for the story about “Mondo”.
The summer is drawing to a close, but before it ends, it’s time for one last championship. The World Championships in Athletics in Budapest are just around the corner and Sweden is sending a record-breaking squad of blue and yellow representatives to the championships.
Duplantis on TV
The big star and main hope for gold is named, of course Armand Duplantis. The 23-year-old is looking to defend his WC gold in the pole vault and possibly break a new world record again if the conditions are at their best.
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But before it’s time to chase the World Cup gold, “Mondo” is very current on the television these days. TV4 has released a new documentary film about the Swedish world star called “Mondo Man”. Where we get a private insight into Armand’s life and family with dad Greg Duplantis and mother Helena Duplantis as parents and coaches.
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Criticism of TV4
It also reminds a lot of last year’s documentary film “Born to fly” which was shown in cinemas.
“Both films actually tell the same great story, father Greg and Mondo’s Swedish mother Helena are always there. Always! Dad takes care of the pole vault, mum does the physical training – in the middle of ‘Born to fly’ I ask myself if it really could have been this bright, nice and beautiful all the way through, but it’s only towards the end that dad Greg asks himself if he pushed too hard, if perhaps he has also been driven by his own desire for revenge? He hovers a little on the answer,” writes the DN journalist Johan Croneman in a chronicle.
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In the TV4 documentary, the reporter also tries Frida Nordstrand learn more about the relationship between father and son Duplantis – and what it has been like growing up.
“You never really get a real answer to the consequences of that parental drive until about 15-20 years after a completed career. Then often the athletes themselves have gained distance and can think about what really happened, but there are a few isolated moments even in these documentaries where you understand that it has been tough to have a father as a coach, pusher and the one who always knows ‘best'” , Croneman writes.
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But Johan Croneman then directs harsh criticism at TV4 after seeing their documentary about the big star Armand Duplantis.
“Mondo you have the bigger ambitions, but you don’t come close, it still becomes more of an idol portrait even though you have the absolutely perfect conditions for a deep dive. Frida Nordstrand is admittedly talented, but hugs a little too submissively for the Duplantis family. Completely unnecessary,” he writes in his column and continues:
“As you know, many documentaries these days are littered with terrible music, soundscapes that drown out everything and everyone. In Mondo man it is almost unbearable. Incomprehensibly stupid”.
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