American Sam Kendricks tested positive for covid on site during the last Olympics. Photo: Simon Hastegård/Bildbyrån Armand Duplantis won the Olympics in Tokyo. Foto: MARTIN RICKETT / STELLA PICTURES / PA Sam Kendricks was seen as Armand Duplanti’s main challenger for the gold at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics. But Kendricks never got a chance to … Read more
For the observant, it was clearly something different when Armand Duplantis did his last competition before the Indoor WC in Glasgow. At Renaud Lavillenie’s pole vault gala in Clermont-Ferrand, France, girlfriend Desiré Inglander stood and filmed his jump. Usually, it’s his coaching duo, dad Greg and mom Helena, who have that assignment. They were not … Read more
14 jumps into the gala, the temperature was seriously raised for the first time inside the IFU Arena in Uppsala. It was time for the evening’s protagonist, Armand Duplantis, to make his first jump at the Mondo Classic pole vaulting event. Almost everyone in the audience stood up and watched the Swedish world star playfully … Read more