Nothing is stopping someone else from going out and breaking his record.
Nothing is stopping someone else from going out and breaking his record.
If he has a contract with a world record payout in it, he'd be a fool to skip a single centimeter. You could also say Puma were fools for offering that deal to someone who's the clear GOAT in one of of only two events in which the athlete can literally control the record progression.
If I could do what he does, I'd be doing exactly what he's doing.
babaganosh wrote:
I would love to know what his lifetime in-practice best is. Wouldn't be surprised if he's vaulted 6.40m.
bet he’s done 6.33-6.37 in practice up to this point and wr will be 6.38-6.42 when he peaks.
Wake me up when he hits 21 feet; has a much cleaner ring to it than all this decimal meter stuff.
Does he actually keep improving? Probably only he knows. But at some point, his true capability and his attempted highet will converge. At this point in time in the not so far future, he will most likely not be able to improve much more and will likely not set another WR after that.
The shame in all of this is that he might never actually vault his true max potential, because the window for such a performance is a fleeting one, and he will have been too busy raising the bar by one centimeter every few weeks/months.
voice of gloom wrote:
I know he gets a bonus every time he breaks the record, but I worry that this incremental strategy will prevent him (and humanity) from reaching the absolute ceiling of performance.
You never know when you've PR'ed for the last time, and I'd hate to see injury or tragedy end Mondo's career prematurely. Surely, if he got hit by a bus, he wouldn't want to be in his wheelchair wondering if I could have gotten 6.40 if he'd tried.
I think he shouldn't end his competitions on a clearance. Just keep going for it.
His wheelchair will be made of gold.
I think it was bubka who commented that gebreselassie was foolish to obliterate the records
Didn't bubk have the same money spinning racket as mondo
Going to have to put Mondo in with....
Tom Brady, Usain Bolt, Jim Brown, Muhammad Ali, Jerry Rice, Lawrence Taylor,Michael Jordan, he is without question the GOAT at what he does.
I would be doing exactly what Mondo is doing (and Bubka did before him) with the WR bonuses.
I do hope one day, though, when conditions are perfect and he’s “on” like never before he seizes the opportunity and puts the record as high as he can.
6.29m is absolutely amazing! Time for Raygun to lower the Limbo dance WR to -6.29 cm for charity.
Tim Hutchings during the telecast attempted the simpleton conventional wisdom that Duplantis is already capable of much more and has done so in training.
Hannah England properly put Hutchings in his place but should have done so in a considering more stern tone and mocking fashion.
That topic is easily the greatest litmus test in track and field right now. Duplantis never attempts anything resembling these heights in practice and every world record right now is a test of current maximum. He rattled that bar all over the place but it stayed on.
Awsi Dooger wrote:
Tim Hutchings during the telecast attempted the simpleton conventional wisdom that Duplantis is already capable of much more and has done so in training.
Hannah England properly put Hutchings in his place but should have done so in a considering more stern tone and mocking fashion.
That topic is easily the greatest litmus test in track and field right now. Duplantis never attempts anything resembling these heights in practice and every world record right now is a test of current maximum. He rattled that bar all over the place but it stayed on.
On some of his successful WR attempts, he cleared the bar by a good chunk – causing the likes of Hutchings to believe that he's capable of jumping well above 6.35.
But yeah, he's not even at his best on every WR attempt, even successful ones. That's why we may never know his true limit, because he doesn't ever actually attack his max potential.
He's said that he vaults lower in practice because there is no pressure and he doesn't have as much adrenaline
Its as well they don't go to the millimetre like the track events go to the millisecond
Hed be clearing 6-29.1 next
I like the electric skateboard idea, a kind of Justin Gatlin-with-the-fan-behind-him gimmick record type of thing.
longjacksss wrote:
the $100k bonus is nothing but being paid for press, and advertisement across the entire planet.
Exactly - btw: Jakob could have "gamed" the 3000 m record easily - but how much Nike is paying for each record,I have no clue.
Do you think runners run world records in practice too? It took him 11 attempts to clear 6.29 (failed all attempts at three meets, cleared the second attempt at this one) . Clearing these insane heights looks pretty easy for him, but it's not THAT easy.
It looked like he is close to his limit (for now). Maybe 6.30 in Tokio but that’s about it.
zizwami wrote:
It looked like he is close to his limit (for now). Maybe 6.30 in Tokio but that’s about it.
I Believe he peaked at 6-29 and going forward will be lowering the world record
Can someone explain why Puma in a next contract wouldn't incentivize breaking the world record by more at once?
E.g. $100k to break it by 1cm
$210k to break it by 2cm
$350 to break it by 3cm
Or even just $100k per cm and if he wants to take a big swing, he can