I'm tired of the fawning over Mondo Duplantis every meet

Why do you fawn over him after every meet? Look inside and answer that question and you free yourself Grasshopper.

I was in the stadium when Rudisha ran 1:40.91 which was a 0.1sec record. Seen one, seen 'em all? What bullsht.

Also complete bullsht.

Thank you for this

The nutcase versions are prevalent here and elsewhere. Apparently they also believe Crouser warms up at 26 meters in practice then dials back at meets.

I agree. Such a niche event. Barely anyone globally pursue this event. Such low competition, no wonder he keeps moving the Needle on his own.

Seriously like 30 guys globally train for this event why are we ever even bothering to follow it.

Now compare that with soccer where millions of boys train every day to be the best. Totally different animal.

Imagine complaining about WR pole vaults while the triple jump still exists.

I don't see what the problem is with this? Other events aren't getting WRs every week regardless. You're complaining because he's too good?

Also, @OP, you're complaining because you don't know how his training works? He has never attempted a WR in training and jumps once or twice a week max, because he wants to have a long career. He's not dillydallying 6.40 every week - half the time he barely sneaks over the 6.20s that he's doing right now (and sometimes he has a wide clearance). So you not believing him is really a you problem and shows you don't really know what you're on about

This seems like you're just mad he's taking coverage away from middle distance, which, objectively people get up and go make a snack during anyways. Blame the wider demographics who are more interested in Mondo

I find it hilarious that people in this thread are just making up alternative facts to suit your grievances, and refuse to accept that they are objectively wrong

You grandmas will call pros “washed up” for a single bad performance and then complain when they win too much.

To be honest, I think the high jump is a much more impressive feat. SO what if he can flex a bendy pole. Monkeys do that all the time.

This is Sergei Bubka redux

Any abled bodied person can "play" soccer. The same cannot be said of the pole vault. I doubt more than 1% of Letrsrun poster could vault 16 feet even with years of practice.

Except that No one (men or women) is threatening the World records in that event at the moment - and those records pre-date this century. The long jump is in a similar place - and boring because of it, even with some thrilling last jump wins by Tentogliou, but in the case of the men even 8m50 is good these days.

It is true that Mondo completely dominating the event has taken the thrill of competition out of it, but no one is stopping others from clearing 6m20+.

What makes Jakob exciting is that he is breaking some WR and chasing premier ones (like 1500m and Mile) - otherwise he is just another middling distance runner. The world record has gone lately in the marathon, 10000m and 5000m (on both the men's and women's sides). The steeple records are not old either. Kipyegon has taken down the 1500 and Mile records - although the women's 800m record is over 40 years old now. The women's 3000m is a daunting however.

people who pretend to care about non-events like 'pole' 'vault' are the woke liberal virtual signalers of Track & Field.

Some people just cannot appreciate greatness I guess.