Stop Mondo from nickel and diming the WR

Yes, the joke will be on him when he walks away with his bags of money.

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!

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.

Sergei Bubka did the same thing. He got paid by his number of WRs, hence the tiny increments.

you find it entertaining that someone can game his contracts, at the expense of his performance on the field?

What if Usain Bolt had been obviously capable of 9.10, but kept refusing to do it so he could game his contracts and get rich? 9.55, 9.53, 9.52...

It is not entertaining at all. It's like the Harlem Globetrotters if they didn't do anything fancy, just always beat the Generals.

Don't hate the player, hate the game. If he wasn't paid out the ass for breaking the WR incrementally he wouldn't do it.

Every meet also wants him to break the world record at their event. So he gets additional bonuses there too.

I sort of agree with you here.

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?

Every time he breaks the WR they show his girlfriend on TV.

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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.

Next day Mondo would jump 6.51.

He's not "nickle and diming" he's centing.

No they wouldn't. Mondo controls the terms of his contract.

Its pole vault, no one cares, there are literally like 50 people in the world that does it.

A company that sponsors him would want attention. Not obscurity. Two world records a year keeps the eyeballs on their investment.
Why on earth would his sponsor want him NOT to be a headliner??

You stop him by paying him the money he would be forsaking.

Go show him how it’s done. Otherwise, let him do however he sees fit. He’s not the first person whose dad was a vaulter.

So did Yelena Isinbayeva. High jumpers have tried to do it too. OP must be a new fan. The only time a pv world record breaker might try to go out is the last vault of the season but prob not even then as they'd be taking away from money they could potentially earn next year.