Another charade.
3 attempts to break the WR for some easy $$$
Put it up to 7 meters
I think Mondo Duplantis should be issued with an ultimatum
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Jakob Ingebrigten wrote:
Either make a serious world record attempt or get banned for a year and have your pole snapped in half. Stop trying to increase it by a cm each time or whatever.
Yelana Isinbayeva did this same thing. She said that by doing it like this, yes, she made more money and more people got to see world records. I was one of those people and so was my middle school (at the time) daughter.
It's a great memory that we have together. Keep doing this Mondo.
I seriously don't see why people are bothered by it.
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Tommy2Nuttz wrote:
Of course hes playing the long game, but wouldn't you in his position? Hes young, he can do it on a whim any time he wants to and has no real competition.
Its very lame but its also a smart business decision. If he breaks in by a cm. each time, there will be larger crowds hoping to catch a new WR for years to come.
I don’t know if the possibility of improving the WR by a centimeter draws huge crowds and it’s almost expected to happen. It’s not like watching Beamon leap 29 feet.
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If he vaults 6.31 in his next meet, then decides to try for 6.32 in the same competition, does that count as breaking the record twice?
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quoththeraven wrote:
If he vaults 6.31 in his next meet, then decides to try for 6.32 in the same competition, does that count as breaking the record twice?
Yes.
He wouldn’t do that, but if he did it would count as two world records.
Renaud tried for a second WR after he cleared 6.16 and he injured himself.
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Kickers usually win wrote:
I don’t know if the possibility of improving the WR by a centimeter draws huge crowds and it’s almost expected to happen. It’s not like watching Beamon leap 29 feet.
Mondo broke the WR 4x this year, his first time breaking it that many times in one year.
He competed in 12 other meets this year where he did not break the WR. Of those 12 meets, he unsuccessfully attempted the WR at 6 of them. In the 6 meets where he did not attempt the WR, he failed at a lower bar in 4 of 6.
16 meets, 4 world records, 10 meets where he ended the meet with three misses and did not break the WR, and only 2 meets where he stopped on a make lower than the WR.
Mondo fails to set the WR far more often than he breaks it. When he broke the WR tonight, he didn’t have any extra room to spare, 6.31 probably would have fallen.
World records are not automatic for Mondo. Each one is an outstanding achievement. He will likely break more world records in the years to come, but he isn’t sandbagging it just to make a few extra bucks.
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Jakob Ingebrigten wrote:
Either make a serious world record attempt or get banned for a year and have your pole snapped in half. Stop trying to increase it by a cm each time or whatever.
Good thing you will never have anything to do with track and field
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Py579 wrote:
Also 1 cm is a meaningful amount on those heights. There is a reason why 10 athletes have managed to clear 6.05m but only 3 have PRs over 6.10m.
Who are the 10? I could only find 8: Bubka, Duplantis, Karális, Kendricks, Lavillenie, Lightfoot, Markov, Tarasov
Crazy thing is that 605 is 4% worse than 630, which is 1 lap in a 10,000. So There are only 7 people who wouldn't have been lapped by Mondo's performance today.
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buzzcolorado wrote:
Who are the 10? I could only find 8: Bubka, Duplantis, Karális, Kendricks, Lavillenie, Lightfoot, Markov, Tarasov
Crazy thing is that 605 is 4% worse than 630, which is 1 lap in a 10,000. So There are only 7 people who wouldn't have been lapped by Mondo's performance today.
Hooker and Nilsen went 6.06 and 6.05 indoors.
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You should use one of these
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