I saw Duplantis’ world record live! What was the main event of these Olympic Games?
Andrey Pankov August 6, 2024, 01:16 Moscow time
Andrey Pankov shares his goosebumps.
In the final of the 2024 Paris Olympics, the phenomenal Armand Duplantis set a new world record in the pole vault. The Swede surpassed his own feat and conquered a height of 6.25 metres. This is already the ninth world record in the athlete’s collection.
I was lucky enough to witness this historic event directly from the podium. And here are five quick observations about the record.
How Duplantis won his second Olympic gold:
The brightest moment of the Paris Olympics. Duplantis won gold with a world record! The Polish men have an incredibly friendly atmosphere. It was a pleasure to watch their section. Absolutely everyone was applauded for his attempt and his opponents helped him up to the stands. For example, Duplantis himself fought until the very end so that he would not remain the only pole vaulter in the section, but so that his pursuers would take one height after another. Well, during the world record attempts, all the other pole vaulters turned into ordinary fans. Watching a world record live is a special feeling. You have no control over how goosebumps you get while trying to break it. And afterwards you feel pure happiness for the person who did it. Armand Duplantis is the ideal showman. He looks like a cold-blooded killer with blue eyes, but you can’t take your eyes off him. You get the feeling that he deliberately didn’t clear the bar on the first two attempts in order to epically conquer it on the last one. The French public is delighted! Firstly, 70 thousand people initially came to see Duplantis’ world record. Everyone wanted to touch history. Secondly, when the Swede was left alone in the sector, absolutely all other competitions were over. But nobody thought of leaving. Everyone was waiting for this 6.25. And what a noise there was when it happened. Not even like that: NOISE! It was just wonderful!
