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Hunt, Duplantis and Hunter Bell in action in final session
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“Why is Mondo Duplantis so good at what he does?” asks Kurt via email – which is surely the question all his competitors have been asking for the past decade.
Aside from all the hard work, dedication and sacrifice, I would say being the son of a pole vaulter and a heptathlete has something to do with it. Duplantis grew up in the United States – he was pole-vaulting aged four and had broken the under-12 world record by the age of 10.
It’s a championships that I’ll obviously never forget for winning gold but also never forget the roars, the cheers, the support. I’ve never experienced anything like that before.
Seeing so many kids as well out there that are screaming for autographs and photos … it kind of makes you realise the effect that you have on the country by, I don’t know, running, jumping, throwing, doing all those events as well as you can.
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