Mondo competes for Sweden instead of USA. Brilliant move or cheap copout!

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4 years ago 02/15/2020 10:50am EST

re: Marathonia

I don't know for sure on what Sweden pays for how ever I do know this, track is not big in the USA, overseas it is like football or basketball here. Also when you are considered amateur here you have to pay everything out of your pocket from shoes to poles to travel. This is why he went pro after one year of LSU to get paid. Other countries don't have the same regulations and will pay for training facilities,travel, poles ECT, as an "amateur". So, not only money aspect, he gets to jump more doing what he loves cause track is bigger over the pond. Given the opportunity I think everyone on here would do it. If someone would help pay for my son to go to track meets, poles and facilities and still be able to compete as an amateur I would take them up on it. He is 11 been vaulting for 2 years (not mondo yet hahaha) and I know for a fact it's is expensive. Maybe 3 meets a year he can compete in so have to travel, time off work, school, poles, club payments, gas, shoes, clothes, it's very expensive.

4 years ago 02/15/2020 12:29pm EST

re: AzWhippet

To the OP...

Here’s a hypothetical. An American family, with a parent in the military, is stationed in Germany. They have a child there, who is raised in Germany and only moved back to the US towards the end of high school (when his parent is honorably discharged from the military and moved back home). If that kid has athletic talent, would it be an insult to Germany for him to compete as an American?

A lot of people are born in the US to foreign nationals. They can have dual citizenship and choose how they compete. Nothing wrong or insulting in my mind.

Alabama BSS Making stuff up from his a*** wrote:
Do you know anything of what you said to be a fact? Or are you just spouting nonsense from your rear? He speaks Swedish, has visited before and has a Swedish mum. Get over yourself and your inaccuracies

Just want to point out that it's been publicly acknowledged several times (directly from the horse's mouth even) that Mondo doesn't speak much Swedish.

Having said that, to address an earlier point made by someone else who said they can't understand how people can have/would want dual allegiances. Without giving an opinion of being pro or against people who feel strongly enough to identify with another country due to some form of heritage, it's definitely not unusual in the US - you see so many people born and raised there yet still actively claiming they're 'Chinese,' 'Italian,' 'Mexican,' 'Irish,' etc. The point is debatable, for sure. But at the least, I think it's very much normal to see people feeling like this.

3 years ago 09/12/2020 10:50pm EDT

re: PrZ

You obviously know little to nothing about Duplantis. Did you know his mother is Swedish and that he has held duel nationality from birth?

There are several reasons why he chose Sweden over the US.

You make a good point in general, but not in using him as your main target for your argument.

3 years ago 12/19/2020 2:42pm EST

re: Hounddogharrier

Hounddogharrier wrote:
...when the USA was the champion of good. Now we are rightfully perceived as evil.

Looks like someone has taken their daily dose of post modern, Neo Marxist BS. The smart money is that you are way off on all accounts. Mondo can do whatever is best for him and his family. That's the reason they gave and I'd take their word at it.

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