Mondo upstages Jingy!

Fair points. Love it or hate, Letsrun is one of the few havens for distance runners.

Yes, but this only reinforces my point. A less «pressured» record will always be easier to beat by a large margin.

There was an award for best performance on the day according to some IAAF metric wasn't there? Who won that? What were the scores? And is the scoring metric completely arbitrary?

He should just blast the WR indoors while he's young/healthy and then keep up the 1cm paydays outdoors.

No one does vault because they're too scaredy-cat. Most of the freaks with no amygdala don't have world class speed, and they do other extreme sports

Mondo occupies a niche few could ever do

Normies don't even realize they can't hold 3:54 pace for even 20 seconds. They think he just looks like a guy loping down the track

they're in denial

The poles have barely changed since the early 90s. They tinker a lot, but Spirit is still using fiberglass and construct the poles similarly to the early 90s. The biggest innovation is the addition of carbon fiber in poles, primarily to make them lighter. In Mondo's case however, his poles are entirely fiberglass, like Bubka's, because he likes how they feel and they are more comfortable for him. In both Bubka and Mondo's day, the limiting factor for a vaulter isn't the pole. Both bubka and Mondo could use a pole that would provide more spring for them, IF they could put more energy into the plant. You could actually think of Mondo's poles being inferior in a way to Bubka's, due to their bodyweight differences. Bubka was using a stiffer pole since he could put more energy into it, and get more energy out of the pole on the vault. Mondo would struggle to bend a pole Bubka used, but being lighter he doesn't need to put as much energy into the pole as Bubka to achieve the same heights.

Probably?

You don't think he already has in training?

Yeah, and Ingebrigtsen has run a 7:10 3000m in training. They always save their best for irrelevant training sessions.

Wow, tell me you don't know vaulting, without saying you don't know vaulting. Or any jumps. Or throws. You just sound ignorant here.

It's not uncommon for vaulters and others in field events to hit or beat PRs out of official competition. Attempts can taken with zero harm done if there is a foul or miss (unlike competition). Anyone in field events know this.

I guarantee that Mondo has done higher than 6.26 over an elastic practice crossbar.

Yes, probably. Because I THINK he has, but haven't seen it personally.

I’ve coached pole vault for a long time and I’ve compared 30 year old UCS Spirit poles (the make/model Mondo uses) next to brand new ones and they are basically the same. Yes they have tweaked them over the years and it’s possible the fiberglass is higher quality today but they have changed very little. I’ve heard that Mondo is using an 18’ pole which would have to be some kind of custom made pole for him since UCS does not sell a pole that long but otherwise the tech in Mondo’s poles is pretty old school.

I thought Mondo was on the 17-1 pole from Spirit.

I heard that second hand so I can’t confirm it, but if he’s on 17s still that would put his push-off over 50” if you count his actually height. That would be incredible.

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Looks closer to 17 than 18, even accounting for box depth.

Well you said 6.40, and with no mention of an elastic practice crossbar. So the story's falling apart.

But yeah, doing it with a practice crossbar would be irrelevant so adding that in is a point against you.

I could add that Jakob could do a 7:10 downhill.

fair enough you clearly know more about pole vaulting than me, and the materials. it's very surporising to the layman that they haven't figured out a higher % energy return in this time