Armand Duplantis has done it again.
After the new world record, the expert Miro Zalar is in shock – over a special detail.
– I don’t understand it, says the Radiosporten expert.
Armand Duplantis broke his first world record a few years ago, and since then he has improved it no less than seven times. When the Diamond League season ended on Sunday, there was another improvement, as he cleared 6.23 on the first(!) attempt.
The expert on the world record
Armand Duplantis had already won the event long before, when no other competitor got over 5.82. Duplantis managed with some problems 6.02, but chose to set the bar directly at world record height – and once there he only needed one jump. Armand Duplantis is the best pole vaulter of all time and continues to make jumps that are written right into the history books.
Radiosport’s longtime expert Miro Zalar is above all happy about the conditions that Duplantis had to jump under yesterday.
– I think I should stick to what I believe about pole vaulting, that you should have a little tailwind and good conditions. And that it is actually much easier to jump really high outdoors than indoors. Now I mean that he will not set a world record even indoors, but that the conditions today were pretty good, and that he will find that power, he says.
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The big shock
Because Miro Zalar is most impressed by Armand Duplanti’s mindset. To succeed in jumping higher than everyone else – and to break new records – when you win every single competition, he highlights that as special.
– I don’t understand it, because if you look at the rest of the world elite, he beats everyone by 40 centimeters and no one looked any further. Where Mondo gets his powers from, how he can maintain this motivation, it’s unreal in some ways, he says.
Miro Zalar says this about the new world record jump:
– I was hoping that he would complete in the first, it looked like he took out a pretty hard rod. Then you usually want to have a good feeling, that you are investing in the pole, and if you can only make a reasonable first jump, you have great and good chances that something in the other jumps you have left will follow through. But he already did it in the first, that’s damn impressive.
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