The 2024 Olympics in Paris kicked off with a grand opening ceremony on July 26. When almost a week of rattling branches took place on French soil, Sweden managed to grab several medals.
The first to take a Swedish medal was the 18-year-old judoka Tara Babulfath who goes home from his first Olympic Games with a bronze medal in his luggage.
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Tara Babulfath. Photo: Magnus Lejhall/TT
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Several medal hopes remain in the 2024 Olympics
Additional Swedish medal hopefuls remaining in the Olympics, which end on August 11, are, for example, the swimmer Sarah Sjostromthe discus thrower Daniel Ståhl and the pole vaulter Armand Duplantiswhich became known to the whole world as “Mondo”.
But where does the nickname actually come from?
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Armand Duplantis. Photo: Christine Olsson/TT
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That’s why Armand Duplantis is called “Mondo”
That’s exactly what Armand Duplantis told about in an interview with Frida Nordstrand in the documentary “Mondo Man” broadcast on TV4 Play in 2023.
– It comes from my father’s best friend. He is Italian. Mondo is an Italian word. And yes, I don’t know exactly how it happened. I was very young, maybe three or four years old. So I don’t remember. But they said “Mondo man”, explains the pole vaulter and continues:
– I liked it and I always told people “say Mondo man” to me.
Photo: Christine Olsson/TT
In the same interview, Duplantis states that everyone in his vicinity calls him precisely Mondo – except for one.
– Only my grandmother says Armand. She doesn’t like to say Mondo, he says.
– No, but it will be wrong. I can’t, explains the star’s grandmother in a subsequent clip.
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