Armand Duplantis broke a new world record.
Then he was forced to go against his own principles.
– I have promised myself that, he says.
Armand Duplantis continues to exceed everyone’s wildly high expectations. It was heavily favored that he stepped into the Olympics in Paris, as one of the biggest gold contenders in the entire game, and he did not disappoint. In front of packed stands, he not only won gold in a landslide – he also broke a new world record.
New record jump
It was Armand Duplanti’s ninth career world record, and his second just this year. Mondo is so superior in the pole vault that he wins pretty much every single competition he enters, and it’s more about whether he’ll break a new record when he jumps than whether he will win. And after the Olympics, it was only weeks before it was time again.
In a competition in Poland on Sunday, Mondo needed just four jumps in the entire event before he had again jumped higher than anyone else in the history of pole vaulting. Duplanti’s new world record now reads 6.26, and afterwards much of the talk was about the upcoming duel with the Norwegian 400-meter runner Karsten Warholm. After much talk and writing, it is now clear with a duel between the two superstars at the beginning of September, and Duplantis said afterwards that the meeting with Warholm, at 100 meters, gave him motivation in training.
Violates own rule
But afterwards, Duplantis also talked about a dilemma he has. Normally, Mondo is careful to celebrate its world records, but this time the situation is different.
– I know that Karsten 100 percent believes that he will kill me. It is 100 percent. And now, now it’s a bit difficult and difficult, because I have promised myself that I will always celebrate a world record. But now it’s actually a bit bad timing, says Duplantis to SVT.
However, Mondo believed that one way would have been to bring Karsten Warholm to a possible celebration.
– I have to push Karsten because if we party with each other and together it doesn’t matter, then it’s a fair match. So we’ll see, I have to talk to him a little more and push him, he says.
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