Final evening, Armand “Mondo” Duplantis, the Swedish-American pole vaulting legend representing Sweden within the Olympics, did issues solely he might think about. Cool, calm, collected, and joking with mates, he skipped most heights and solely began to take issues severely after he had secured the gold by a large margin. He casually set a brand new Olympic report of 6.10 after which determined, “Why not beat my very own world report by one centimeter?” On his third try, he cleared 6.25m (although Omega’s monitoring knowledge confirmed he might have cleared an unbelievable 6.5m), and the group – and Mondo – went wild.
