have less than zero interest in the PV...so he can do whatever the hell he wants...the field events in general are dying...all the interest in self generated by the athletes...fans don't really give a crap!
1. OP is greatly underestimating how difficult the pole vault is. Even with Mondo, it's never automatic.
2. It's also the nature of the pole vault that you raise the bar in increments, and Mondo is just following the same rules as everyone else. There's no event in track and field where you create punitive rules to handicap the best athletes. You might as well say that after he set the WR in the 100m, Usain Bolt should have been forced to wear a 10 lb backpack, or Sydney has to go over taller hurdles than everyone else.
3. Enjoy Mondo while his career lasts. Odds are against seeing anyone else that good at PV in your lifetime.
adding on to this.
4 It did take him all 3 attempts to make it and he barely made it. The bar was shaking as he went over.
5 watch his knees. they are what cause almost all of his misses now a days. tv keep putting his potential clearance based on his hip clearance. but he is starting to struggle getting his knees over first.
6 it also takes time for a PV to get use to stronger and heavier poles. He might be closing in on his top height with his current poles. and it will take time to move up a pole.
5 watch his knees. they are what cause almost all of his misses now a days. tv keep putting his potential clearance based on his hip clearance. but he is starting to struggle getting his knees over first.
Knees on the way up, chest on the way down. Both makes sense of course, the higher he goes, the smaller the margin to play with "breadthwise". If he ever clears 6:40 I bet he'll be very close to the bar with BOTH his knees on the way up and his chest on the way down.
This is an insane and asinine take. It’s great for the sport, did you not see the excitement in the stadium? Also, he’s not clearing it by miles, he rattled the hell out of the bar.
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What sort of loser complains about someone doing something no one else has ever done more than a dozen times but not doing it by enough more than someone else has ever done?
I hope Mondo breaks it 30 more times just how he's been doing it and keeps making 100s of thousands of people happy and millions more in bonuses and endorsements.
5 watch his knees. they are what cause almost all of his misses now a days. tv keep putting his potential clearance based on his hip clearance. but he is starting to struggle getting his knees over first.
Knees on the way up, chest on the way down. Both makes sense of course, the higher he goes, the smaller the margin to play with "breadthwise". If he ever clears 6:40 I bet he'll be very close to the bar with BOTH his knees on the way up and his chest on the way down.
Yes. In this jump he used all the room he had. To go 6:35 he probably would need to get faster and use even a heavier pole. Even with this WR pole (which is very stiff) he can barely get enough momentum forwards so that he actally goes over the bar instead of crashing on top of it.
1. OP is greatly underestimating how difficult the pole vault is. Even with Mondo, it's never automatic.
Baloney. It is obviously easier by far for Mondo than for anyone else, that's what matters. He is competing against himself.
Who are all these idiots all, "oh but sometimes he misses all 3 attempts?" Way to lower the bar. Wow. So he doesn't get a world record every single time, and that means he has to keep edging it up by .01 increments?
NO. You are revealing yourselves idiots, not me. If you believe - as most of you have admitted - that he could go 6.40, then the quickest route that is to set the bar at 6.40 every single time until it happens. Every lower height attempted is one less 6.40 attempt and lowers the overall odds of him ever clearing it.
As I said on page one, if he gets injured, he's done where he's at. And beyond injury, any year could be his peak year, after which that 6.40 chance may fade away. Has he ever tried it yet? Seems like he hasn't.
Look what happened to Wayde Van Niekerk after 43.03. Oops, knee injury, done forever. He made it back to elite status but will never match his old form.
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 best athlete in the world, fame, hot girlfriend, medals, world records.. no wonder the op is crying
Millions of people were excited when he broke the record. Did tpu even watch?
Who was so excited? The majority of people I know that are even passive fans of track don't take his WRs seriously because they know about the schtick
80.000 people in the stadium waited when the competition was over just to watch him trying to break the record. The whole stadium roared as he cleared 6'30. Millions were watching the live broadcast. Again, It was only him and the bar. You are a moron
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.
So dumb.
By the time he finishes his winning jump, he is deep into his planned total jumps.
He's not jogging a 10 k or a 1500. He has ex jumps in him. He's doing you a favor staying out there
This has to be the lamest take, belongs with Nick Wright or SAS. The coordination required to move up in poles, figure out the bend, figure out the hand hold, probably have it made for him, figure out the standards, figure out his speed on the runway, etc. takes time. He cannot just go straight to what he would use to break 6.50 without risking injury. Just appreciate the phenom. There will never be another like him. He is an athlete for all generations.
I was up watching live this morning, the 100 hurdles had just finished and "all attention was on Mondo and if he could break the WR" - honestly, I closed the browser. Went and had a coffee and some toast came back and saw on the WA results page he jumped a WR. Cool.
And I love track and field, but there is no doubt the "specialness" of this particular record just really isn't there at all anymore. 14 WR's in the last 5 years and all of them by one cm.
By comparison we've seen two WRs in the mens 1500m in the last 30 years. After the exciting period in the late 90's where the 5000m WR bounced between Komen and Geb, we've seen two WR's in that event since the turn of the century as well.
Don't get me wrong, this is not a dig against the talent of Mondo and his stardom. And if PUMA are stupid enough to have WR bonus in there for every single WR or even just a massive bonus amount like track athletes have because records are so hard to break, then more fool them. But they are are 3 billion dollar company, they will be fine.
BTW This situation has happened before on the womens side with Yelena Isanbaeva. She set 11 WR's over the space of 8 years but at least she started going up by 2 and 3cm increments at a point. I know adidas eventually put something in her contract where a WR bonus was capped on a yearly basis because they basically found out she had cleared 5m in training so knew she could do it, and was just bleeding the WR out. Who knows if Mondo has the same situation now?
It's not that simple.
We have to liken Mondo to Bolt as being an outlier.
His latest WR was THE moment of the games.
Also, he really tried hard this WR and almost didn't make it.
We assume it's easy because he keeps improving. But there is a ceiling for Mondo, and he is getting closer to it.
What would an athlete have to do to be approved of on this board? Win, set world records, win Olympic and World gold, compete through pain, compete every meet, get daily tests? It's hard to say what it would take because there's a flood of criticism somehow for the best and the once best.
Really? His competition is like 30 cm away from him in a good day. He can break the record even by 0.25 cm. Are you telling me that track meeting records are not relevant if improved by 1 second? You are so fkn stupid.