Booyah Duplantis! Nominative determinism in full effect.
2024 Summer Olympics (Paris)
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Imagine living on the third floor and then this dude just casually jumps through your window!
Looking all bored
I think he just used all of his adrenaline for today
Ridiculous. 9 world records must be some kind of record itself.Why would he? He could've had 6.30 ages ago. He deliberately beats his own record by 1 cm every time.
That's outstanding. Feeeeeeccckkk. He knew he was going to do it, too. He just knew.
Why did he chose to represent Sweden rather than the USA?
Great night of viewing, the Olympics are great.
I think Bubka had over 30 world records back in the day so still some ways to go for that record.
Like Bubka used to. Turn up, break the WR, take the cash, go home, job done.
He is only young as well, could go to even greater heights.
That was a moment to remember. The crowd is cheering him as if he were born and raised in Paris. Incredible athlete, incredible achievement and an incredible atmosphere.
Love the bell.
35 (in and out). Lost it once and broke it on his next jump. Loved him growing up
His career over the last 4 years has essentially been an exhibition to see if he improves his WR. Everybody else competes for medals and then there's Mondo the Harlem Globetrotter of Pole Vault, who shows up with the gold medal already at his neck and doesn't even care and spends the other guys final to warm up until his own event can begin
It's hard to fathom
It's hard to fathom
I adore this whole deal with the bell. Iconic.
There's a good documentary about Mondo called Born To Fly, currently available on the official Olympic Games app.
He’s insane. Is anyone else as good at doing anything as Duplantis is at pole vaulting? What an athlete.
They should have brought out the much larger WR bell.
Germany win 3x3 basket gold
Incredible
I don't even care for pole vaulting but that was incredible. Duplantis is just in a league of his own. Superhuman.
It’s mind boggling that he jumped 30 CMs higher than then guy with Silver.
Oh my god, imagine a bell made out of glass. You smash it with a hammer or something. Shiiiiiiiiit.
Didn't he have a dodgy Olympic record? ,considering his complete dominance of the sport
that’s only one high jumper’s dick.
Russia didn’t go to one (LA?) and had an injury or something at another? Won one.
Used to win the Worlds every time though and his last WR was over ten years after his first. Can’t think of another athlete who did that?
Think he flopped (npi) in Barcelona, remember it being a major shock.
Best athlete in the world.
His mother is Swedish and they felt the preparations for competitions would be easier in Sweden compared to the US as well.
I wondered. I knew his mother was Swedish.
Was just discussing this with the missus...Ryan Crouser maybe the only one remotely close.
Sydney McClaughlin possibly in terms of the track but obviously Bol is at least pushing the times.
Still think Duplantis is alone in aura and individual brilliance though
Bubka has one Olympic medal (gold) that he won in Seoul 88, which was his first Olympics after the Soviets boycotted LA 84. He flopped in 92, failing to register a vault in the final, was injured in 96, and flopped again in 2000, failing to register a vault in the qualifier.
Has 6 World golds though.
Has 6 World golds though.
3x3 basketball final starting.
Did you see how the other competitors stayed there and cheered on him? That tells you all that you need.
Always knew that was the sport for me.