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Now “Mondo” is not only the best pole vault of all time in all categories.
Tonight in Rome in September 2020, Armand Duplantis proved once again that he is one of the greatest sports talents in the world. When it went from 6.15, it did so by a margin. The bar, he didn’t even touch it.
“Mondo” was not born to fly, it only looks like this when pole vaulting. He has been doing it since he had just learned to walk.
Talents or qualities – It is required to belong to the best in sports are many.
You must be based on the natural aptitude to technically master your branch. Armand “Mondo” Duplantis is one with his sport.
For former world jumper father Greg Duplantis, the difficulty in training “Mondo” has been that he didn’t always know what his son was doing. “Mondo” has seen and learned from the best of history and has created his own new style.
It is often said of footballers that “he always carried a ball with him.” “Mondo” has always been on pole.
Photo: Andreas Solaro / AFP
It started with the scaffolding at home. on the Louisiana parcel and all these races against the carpet with the pole in the air, all these pole positions, all these flights to and often over the crossbar have made this technically extremely advanced sport the most natural in the world for “Mondo” . You don’t have to do a perfect zoom or jump, you can fix things during the ride past the crossbar.
The talent that will become a star must cope with the difficult steps of development so that it does not stop on a ledge. In recent years, Armand has managed to put on muscle and bring along his fantastic technique as the body has been transformed from a favorite to a man.
An athlete who wants to reach the top must like it when it’s hot, when it gets tougher, when resistance and / or challenges increase. “Mondo” loves that kind of thing. He does not like to train. It is the competitions and high jumps that he is passionate about.
The most notable of Armand Duplantis now jumping the highest pole vault in history is here:
It was expected.
The boy is only 20 years old and yet he was expected to jump higher than Sergej Bubka, Renaud Lavillenie and everyone else did.
“Mondo” had already hit all the history logs inside during your magical log days last winter. Then he took 6.17 meters for the first time. The following week he achieved an inch higher and since, interestingly enough, the indoor record also applies outdoors, “Mondos” 6.18 remains the official world record in pole vault. Still.
In my book, Bubka is one of the greatest sports stars of all time. He is among names like Muhammad Ali, Pelé and Maradona, Usain Bolt and Michael Jordan.
Now Armand Duplantis is better than Bubka and he is dizzying and his journey has just begun.
Athletics does not have the same status in the sports world as it did in Bubka’s time. There have been too many doping scandals along the way.
But a single athlete can be enough to spark interest if that athlete is good enough, does enough remarkable things, and has enough charisma.
In the second half of the 2000s came Usain Bolt as the savior in times of need and turned world athletics into a one-man show.
And not. I’m not saying that Duplantis is close to the star status that Bubka had or the importance to athletics that Bolt had, but he does have the ability to create strong emotions when standing at a shooting range with a raised post.
You want to know what a person can do, how he can do it, what a person can do.
When Usain Bolt retired, German shoe and apparel manufacturer Puma (almost) bet on Armand Duplantis to sign. They realized that he could become the biggest name in athletics.
It’s him now.
And we swedes You may be grateful that a young woman named Helena Hedlund wanted to use her athletic talents to study in the United States and that she just finished at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge and that there was a pole vaulter at that school named Greg and that they day he started talking on the health food shelf in a grocery store.
Here and there they unknowingly wrote the first chapter of one of the most exciting Swedish sports stories. “Mondo” Duplantis has many more to write.
