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Armand Duplantis has written sports history again.
Finally, he has set a world record on Swedish soil.
But why does it hurt to see “mondo” jump pole jump nowadays.
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He has won two Olympic golds, five World Cup golds, four European Championship gold and set twelve world records over the past seven years. But on Sunday evening still succeeded Armand Duplantis Write a new, fantastic chapter in the blue -yellow success story.
Duplanti’s joy
The Swedish world star in pole jump offered an incredible show during the Bauhaus gala at Stockholm Stadium. He managed 6.28 meters and for the first time in his career he managed to beat the world record on Swedish soil.
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There were huge joy scenes on the inner track and the pictures of “Mondo” and Grandma Ingrid Hedlund Which cheered together went straight into the heart. The Duplantis family, fiancé Desiré Inglander And the giant Usain Bolt Was also in place for the historic evening.
Hurts to see mondo
It was a spectacle without its like and Armand Duplanti’s joy really went on. But it was also another competition that never got very exciting and it actually hurts to see “Mondo” jumping pole jump nowadays.
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He is so superior that there is no longer any worthy competition, where he himself gets up to 6.30 meters soon at the same time as the rivals have trouble getting past the six -meter limit. The question is how long, until he is able to push himself against new heights, without having anything to lose or risk.
When we talk about our greatest Swedish athletes through the ages as Ingemar StenmarkThe Björn Borg and Jan-Ove Waldner Then there were rivals that pushed them to new levels to achieve success. Unfortunately, there will always be Duplanti’s Achilles heel when it comes to the discussion about who is the biggest athlete.
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