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Armand Duplantis is on site in Norway.
With the goal of breaking a new world record during the Diamond League.
But suddenly the most unexpected question appeared for “Mondo”.
On Thursday evening begins Armand Duplantis The Diamond League season premieres in Oslo. The Swedish world star is aiming to break a new year’s best in front of the Norwegian audience and maybe we will also see a new world record too if everything is correct.
Duplanti’s answer
At the press conference before the DL gala, “Mondo” received the most unexpected question from the curious journalists. After the usual standard questions about how the form is and what he thinks of Norway, it was time for the slightly more fun questions at the press conference.
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Duplantis was also asked when a journalist asked what it would take for the pole vault star to get a statue of himself outside Stockholm’s stadium. But the 23-year-old was still able to collect his thoughts and give a perfect answer to the unexpected question.
– Didn’t Karsten (Warholm) set a record here? If he doesn’t have a statue, it will probably be quite tough for me, says Armand at the press conference according to SVT Sport and admits that he needs to jump significantly higher to deserve a monument.
– Probably quite as high, at least higher than now. But that would be cool.
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Norwegian gliding
The Norwegian running star Jakob Ingebrigtsen sat next to him at the press conference and quickly picked up on the statue issue.
– I didn’t think you build statues anymore, because we don’t have any, says the Norwegian, pointing at Duplantis and himself.
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Ingebrigtsen also wants to put some pressure on his home country should he break a new world record in the 1,500 meters during the Diamond League competition in Oslo.
– If I set a world record here and run faster than 3.26, I deserve a statue, says the Norwegian cockily.
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