He breaks a world record on average about 2-3 times a year and Puma pay him a bag every time he does it.
In a sport that doesn't pay it's star athletes enough, he's maximizing his revenue stream.
Fair play to him.
Notice his shoes came off his feet, never left his hands and were prominent in every photo after his WR. See all those photogs? See the shoes? Yeah. Cha ching! 💲💵💲Puma is very happy and so is Mondo.
Notice his shoes came off his feet, never left his hands and were prominent in every photo after his WR. See all those photogs? See the shoes? Yeah. Cha ching! 💲💵💲Puma is very happy and so is Mondo.
He can do what he wants to, as long as someone else doesn't beat him. He is responsible for increasing the exposure of Pole Vault. If it wasn't for him doing it this way, no one would have stayed in stadium, everyone remained, and hordes of photographers around him
The guy practically pole vaulted out of his mother's womb, with his elite pole vaulter dad. He could go 6.50 any time he wants.
Someone needs to invoke the "honest effort" rule and DQ him for setting the bar at 6.30, 6.31, 6.32. Come on dude, joke's over. See where your real limit's at.
Joke will be on him if he gets career-ending injury though.
Lol. He needed almost a prefect jump and he touched the bar during the attempt. At this level every centimeter is big the same way as in sprints breaking WR by 0.01s is big. That is why there is ~6 guys who have jumped 6.05 but only 3 who have jumped 6.10 or higher.
Of course he's milking it. Its tacky in some ways to do this cm by cm for yrs to make his money, but what are you going to do?
You just know he jumps higher than his WR in practice from time to time.
No. Just no. The same way nobody is running 3:26 1500m in practise with somebody pacing them with a bike. That kind of training doesn't make any sense. You do it in a competition where you get that extra bit of energy from the audience and the setting.
I don’t blame Mondo milking it for as much money as he can get.
What I don’t like however is the playacting and the way he will purposely miss the first two attempts, sit on the crash mat and pretend he’s figuring out what went wrong, look to his parents in the crowd (like they can do anything), and then magically break the record on the third and final attempt.
Why is no-one calling him out the way he knocks down the bar with his hand or body on those first two world record attempts?
So he miraculously clears it on his third attempt, runs to the crowd, high fives his family, kisses his girlfriend, poses for photographers, gives his shoes away (so Puma Nitro gets extra coverage) then he runs part way around the track.
It’s all theater, I get it, but he does the same performative schtick every single time… in one centimeter increments.
This kind of conspiratorial thinking is just silly. You don't run top speed to do a vault and purposefully miss it. His 6.28m in Stockholm was his first attempt, 6.29m in Budapest was his second attempt, this happened in his third attempt. And most of the time he does all the three attempts and misses all of them. In Zurich three weeks ago he only managed to jump 6.0m.
He is human and tries to do his best on the day. Sometimes it's enough, sometimes it isn't. It's very special that he hasm managed to stay mostly injury free and motivated the last two years. If he would have never managed to get better than his 6.23m at Eugene he still probably would have been the best vaulter ever.
This kind of crazy level of performance level won't last for long. It's very likely that this year was his peak.
The guy practically pole vaulted out of his mother's womb, with his elite pole vaulter dad. He could go 6.50 any time he wants.
Someone needs to invoke the "honest effort" rule and DQ him for setting the bar at 6.30, 6.31, 6.32. Come on dude, joke's over. See where your real limit's at.
Joke will be on him if he gets career-ending injury though.
He's another nepo baby and pole vaulting isn't a real sport. Let's see them vault with a scaffolding pole.
One of many none sports that should be removed from athletics.
Couldn't agree more. Get rid of, in order of most ridiculous:
The guy practically pole vaulted out of his mother's womb, with his elite pole vaulter dad. He could go 6.50 any time he wants.
Someone needs to invoke the "honest effort" rule and DQ him for setting the bar at 6.30, 6.31, 6.32. Come on dude, joke's over. See where your real limit's at.
Joke will be on him if he gets career-ending injury though.
The guy practically pole vaulted out of his mother's womb, with his elite pole vaulter dad. He could go 6.50 any time he wants.
Someone needs to invoke the "honest effort" rule and DQ him for setting the bar at 6.30, 6.31, 6.32. Come on dude, joke's over. See where your real limit's at.
Joke will be on him if he gets career-ending injury though.
probably the dumbest post ever posted on letsrun. literally every capitalist person on this forum is laughing at this. leave mondo alone, hes making the big bucks like every other successful athlete would in the biz, sorry you dont see it like that since your athletic career was probably limited to a half season walk on stint at a community college
This kind of conspiratorial thinking is just silly. You don't run top speed to do a vault and purposefully miss it. His 6.28m in Stockholm was his first attempt, 6.29m in Budapest was his second attempt, this happened in his third attempt. And most of the time he does all the three attempts and misses all of them. In Zurich three weeks ago he only managed to jump 6.0m.
He is human and tries to do his best on the day. Sometimes it's enough, sometimes it isn't. It's very special that he hasm managed to stay mostly injury free and motivated the last two years. If he would have never managed to get better than his 6.23m at Eugene he still probably would have been the best vaulter ever.
This kind of crazy level of performance level won't last for long. It's very likely that this year was his peak.
Stop helping him gaslight. So what if he usually misses all three! The whole point is his odds are so good that eventually he would have got 6.30 inevitably just by setting the bar there in the first place and trying enough times.
There was no need to baby-step his way there through 6.28 and 6.29.
And as I said before, if he blows an ACL or something before he heights what he's really capable of, it will stay hypothetical forever.
I’ll stop Mondo from doing that if you coach me to jump 6.50.
that would be such sweet justice if someone else starts going 6.50 out of the blue
and then he can't do it and never wins again!
Really hard to understand on why you have such the"hate" on for him. It would seem to me that if one is talented and lucky enough to be able to set not just one, but multiple world records that A) they probably know what they are doing, and B)there is'nt much room or need to criticize them.
My personal view is that while 6.50m is a nice "round" metric result, from watching his vaults last night that he can go higher than that (6.50m is basically 21' 4").
To be honest, there SHOULD be an upper limit/cap to how many times you can break the world record while continuing to receive new bonuses. Perhaps set it at 10 performances lol Mondo is ridiculous, but it’s not his fault that the system is flawed.
To be honest, there SHOULD be an upper limit/cap to how many times you can break the world record while continuing to receive new bonuses. Perhaps set it at 10 performances lol Mondo is ridiculous, but it’s not his fault that the system is flawed.
He can do what he wants to, as long as someone else doesn't beat him. He is responsible for increasing the exposure of Pole Vault. If it wasn't for him doing it this way, no one would have stayed in stadium, everyone remained, and hordes of photographers around him
Yes! People (even here) tend to forget that ten-fifteen years ago PV and TJ was almost lifted out of T&F and definitely on their way out of the DL because the audience didn't care and people at home turned off their screens if those events, especially the PV dragged the broadcast out for time, and the powers that be (rightfully) called them artificial events.
It is, and I doubt we'll ever get to see a Kenyan or Jamaican wonderkid in the PV. Not even the Chinese seems to care, and they care about EVERY SINGLE strange event they can win Olympic medals in, both winter and summer, except for PV, for which their best gymnasts would probably be well suited to produce three 6 meter capable guys for every global champs.
But if you start thinking about PV as the T&F equivivalent to American Footballs Superbowl halftime show, aimed to keep the audience occypied while nothing interresting happens on the on oval/track - then it makes sense to keep it (as long as there's a stand out star drawing eyeballs that way, if/when he quits and if the rest remains 30 cm from the WR interrest can die down again REAL FAST methinks/mefears.
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The guy practically pole vaulted out of his mother's womb, with his elite pole vaulter dad. He could go 6.50 any time he wants.
Someone needs to invoke the "honest effort" rule and DQ him for setting the bar at 6.30, 6.31, 6.32. Come on dude, joke's over. See where your real limit's at.
Joke will be on him if he gets career-ending injury though.
Shut up. Really. Ruining the board a little more...
Yes! People (even here) tend to forget that ten-fifteen years ago PV and TJ was almost lifted out of T&F and definitely on their way out of the DL because the audience didn't care and people at home turned off their screens if those events, especially the PV dragged the broadcast out for time, and the powers that be (rightfully) called them artificial events.
It is, and I doubt we'll ever get to see a Kenyan or Jamaican wonderkid in the PV. Not even the Chinese seems to care, and they care about EVERY SINGLE strange event they can win Olympic medals in, both winter and summer, except for PV, for which their best gymnasts would probably be well suited to produce three 6 meter capable guys for every global champs.
But if you start thinking about PV as the T&F equivivalent to American Footballs Superbowl halftime show, aimed to keep the audience occypied while nothing interresting happens on the on oval/track - then it makes sense to keep it (as long as there's a stand out star drawing eyeballs that way, if/when he quits and if the rest remains 30 cm from the WR interrest can die down again REAL FAST methinks/mefears.
China cares about PV, they have just struggled to find a superstar. They have brought in foreign coaches over the years to try to improve the event
They didn’t have anyone in the men’s final yesterday, but they pretty consistently do have pole vaulters in the finals at global championships. They have a woman in the final tomorrow.
If you received a large sum of money every time you break a record, why would you settle for 1 paycheck for ever when you can get several over a span of 10 years?
The guy practically pole vaulted out of his mother's womb, with his elite pole vaulter dad. He could go 6.50 any time he wants.
Someone needs to invoke the "honest effort" rule and DQ him for setting the bar at 6.30, 6.31, 6.32. Come on dude, joke's over. See where your real limit's at.
Joke will be on him if he gets career-ending injury though.
Nope, he is brilliant. Companies that put incentives into contracts could specify such as "Payouts only for breaking the WR by 2 or more cm's at a time" or 4 or 5 or whatever.
On precisely that point, doesn't it feel like his sponsor, or WA, or whoever else might be paying him repeatedly for these 1 cm world records, would complain about it if they had a problem with it? I'm sure anyone in a position to benefit from his achievements just likes seeing world records, or else they would have said something by now.
Nope, he is brilliant. Companies that put incentives into contracts could specify such as "Payouts only for breaking the WR by 2 or more cm's at a time" or 4 or 5 or whatever.
On precisely that point, doesn't it feel like his sponsor, or WA, or whoever else might be paying him repeatedly for these 1 cm world records, would complain about it if they had a problem with it? I'm sure anyone in a position to benefit from his achievements just likes seeing world records, or else they would have said something by now.
I have long wondered, though, what his "actual" PR is at any given point. He must have done a full send in practice and jumped something insane so that he knows what his actual current limit is. It doesn't count officially but I'm sure he's done this in practice.
I dont know the details of Mondos contract. That will only be known between Mondos party and Puma. But, i do know that many companies have clauses in their contracts, where the athlete can only get paid out for a world record once per year. Meaning, if the athlete was to repeatedly break a world record, it doesn't pay out a bonus each time.