This is a gimmick, right? He can jump a lot higher than this, but he purposely quits after incrementing the WR by 1 cm. He can obviously do what he wants, and the crowds love it, but it would be more impressive if he actually jumped his max height and then beat that.
There’s something cool about having a world record be in an Olympic final. Now it’s from a meet that very few were even able to watch
Where will it end? 6.32?
Go Mondo!!!
Does anyone have a gauge on what his realistic max currently is?
Understand they make more money this way, but it does take the gloss off his Olympic WR for me when we now know he can jump way higher but it just doing it in increments to make money.
I kinda wish they would just tell him they’ll pay him 50k * every cm past world record + a bonus if he can just do it one time. What if he gets injured before hitting the final mark? Or he starts physically declining.
20-6½ for Americans. Hey, he went to school in Louisiana.
LSU! USA!
Who pays the money anyway?
With this jump he now have the 10 best pole vault jumps of history. Lavillenie only the 11th.
doing it to farm money, i kinda dislike this
Armand Duplantis is the greatest pole vaulter of all time, there’s not doubt. No one is touching any of his records for a very long time.
Just beat the record by small increments and get those checks! ;p
It sucks that he jumps for Sweden simply because they agreed to give his dad a job. I’m guessing it’s financially beneficial to both of them, but the US treats its track athletes so poorly I don’t blame them.
Is this the fellar with the sideways dong?
Just went to check what record Lavillenie was holding and it was 6.16m indoor. The previous holder was of course Bubka.
And they’re the only 3 guys that reached 6.10m and higher.
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This is a gimmick, right? He can jump a lot higher than this, but he purposely quits after incrementing the WR by 1 cm. He can obviously do what he wants, and the crowds love it, but it would be more impressive if he actually jumped his max height and then beat that.
There’s something cool about having a world record be in an Olympic final. Now it’s from a meet that very few were even able to watch
Where will it end? 6.32?
Go Mondo!!!
Does anyone have a gauge on what his realistic max currently is?
https://preview.redd.it/ijgu7gorgukd1.png?width=1486&format=png&auto=webp&s=f9194c794be936f27484753757ac682ce88e4b9d
his knee slightly hit, but his belly was surely 20cm above the bar
Dam there’s a meet this soon after the Olympics
Eventually he’ll be able to leap to the moon.
He is going to need a bigger pole
Bro is a menace
Who’d have thought that a massive money prize would have pushed him to break more records?
Here’s a link to the video: https://youtu.be/hV8_txHmy-U
It’s from NBC sports, so it may be geo-locked.
Understand they make more money this way, but it does take the gloss off his Olympic WR for me when we now know he can jump way higher but it just doing it in increments to make money.
I kinda wish they would just tell him they’ll pay him 50k * every cm past world record + a bonus if he can just do it one time. What if he gets injured before hitting the final mark? Or he starts physically declining.
20-6½ for Americans. Hey, he went to school in Louisiana.
LSU! USA!
Who pays the money anyway?
With this jump he now have the 10 best pole vault jumps of history. Lavillenie only the 11th.
doing it to farm money, i kinda dislike this
Armand Duplantis is the greatest pole vaulter of all time, there’s not doubt. No one is touching any of his records for a very long time.
Just beat the record by small increments and get those checks! ;p
It sucks that he jumps for Sweden simply because they agreed to give his dad a job. I’m guessing it’s financially beneficial to both of them, but the US treats its track athletes so poorly I don’t blame them.
Is this the fellar with the sideways dong?
Just went to check what record Lavillenie was holding and it was 6.16m indoor. The previous holder was of course Bubka.
And they’re the only 3 guys that reached 6.10m and higher.
And Duplantis can jump at least 10cm above that !