Armand Duplantis swept the carpet with his opposition at the Paris 2024 Olympics. An Olympic gold and a world record of 6.25 allowed Mondo to leave Paris with a smile on his face.
Armand Duplantis creates great conflict in Uppsala
That Mondo’s success in the Olympics would create intrigue was not something that was thought beforehand. However, that is how it has turned out, in Uppsala municipality. It’s about whether or not to build a monument to Mondo.
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Makes big money from his world records
Why does Mondo raise the bar by only one centimeter every time he sets a world record? It’s probably about money. Every time you break a new world record, you get a new juicy sum of money.
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Photo: AP Photo/Bernat Armangue
It hasn’t been long since the Olympics in Paris wrapped up, but Mondo has already had time to compete since then. It was in Lausanne that Duplantis picked up his pole vaulting poles to once again venture into the high altitudes. It wasn’t an entirely straightforward competition for Mondo, where he ripped his first two attempts at 6.15 but cleared the height on the third attempt.
The Diamond League continues over large parts of the year and on August 25, it’s time for Mondo to jump again, then in the Polish city of Silesia.
Armand Duplantis nobs the Finnish fight
The Finnkampen is held once a year and athletes from Sweden and Finland gather to crown a victorious country. Finnkampen has a 99-year history when it was organized for the first time in 1925.
Now Armand Duplantis chooses to compete in the competition, which this year takes place at the Olympic Stadium in Helsinki.
Photo: Jonas Ekströmer/TT “It has never been an issue”
In an interview with The Express has Mondo’s manager Daniel Wessfeldt spoke about Duplanti’s decision to nob Finnkampen.
– It has never been an issue. He has too many big competitions that he can’t be without. He has been there before, when Finnkampen has been at home, we try to solve it. But now it is in conflict with the big Diamond League competitions and he does not want to opt out.
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