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On the Roof of the World: A Puzzle of Mondo Doplantis | Israel today

2020-02-10T08:55:12.453Z


Without any unusual technique and without the ability to go into detail, the 20-year-old jumped 6.17 meters and stunned the world and the field of athletics


He doesn't have Lavalani's sleek technique or the descent into Bobka's details, so what makes Mondo Dopplantis a purple person anyway? • The 20-year-old, whose 6.17-meter jump has shocked the world, is driving industry experts: "A riddle without a solution"

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It was in the 1960s that Sports Illustrated magazine defined the bouncy jumps as "the great hoops of athletics." The reasons that led to this assertion were that "their profession is a synthesis of everything. It mixes, of course, the speed of a sprinter with the power of the javelin thrower and the flexibility and free-jumping of the altitude. To keep themselves from competing to competing. "

And really, of all the light sports, jumping in the pole seems to be the most difficult for the average person. Everyone can run or jump or throw, but only a few can hold the long pole at the end parallel to the ground, run with it at peak speed, stick it at a specific point and then curl up with it to a height that is over six feet. So, from day one, Mondo Doplantis is the biggest lift of all.

Doplantis in action // Photo: AFP

The 20-year-old Swede started the competition that made him that Saturday in Poland at 5.52 meters. He passed it on the first try, lightly, as well as heights of 5.72, 5.92, and 6.01 meters. At that point, with the victory already in his pocket, Dopplantis sought to raise the bar to 6.17 meters - an inch above the peak of the world.

Four days earlier, in Dusseldorf, Germany, the 2018 European champion had already tried that height and failed after his elbow had touched the bar and prevented him from reaching the world record. "The experience almost made me cry with excitement," he said at the time, doubting that he believed another attempt would come that week. The day before he dropped the bar again on the first try, but this time he delivered extraordinary confidence. He approached his mother who was presenting, calmly and calmly, and said: "I just have to catch the pole a little higher up." So in the second attempt that's exactly what he did - and with a perfect leap set a new world record of 6.17 meters. "It's amazing," he said after a long hug with his mother Helena, "for that very moment I have dreamed all my life."

The inscription was on the wall

Although Dupalentis's life had only begun "not too long ago" - he celebrated 20 just about three months ago - but of those 20, 17 included dreams of happening in Poland the other day. As a boy jumping rod and a Swedish volleyball player, Armand was born and raised in Louisiana, in a home with a yard that has a mattress, bar and pole - an environment that allowed him to start his career at age 3.

Doplantis. Puzzle without solution // Photo: AFP

Four years later, when he was 7 years old, he had already begun breaking world records for his peers, and has not stopped since he reached the roof of the world two days ago. Along the way, he won the European Championship with a world record of up to 20 (6.05 meters) and a silver medal at the Doha World Championships, where he set 5.97 meters. Duplantis says he watches every jump of his time dozens of times, analyzing every movement and every frame to learn and improve. The Swedish is a new-generation athlete - very active on media and social networks - and in one of the interviews, he said that in his many biotopes, he used to watch the world peak (now former) Renault Lavalani, whom he called "the pop-up with the perfect technique in history."

The Frenchman, whose previous height (6.16 meters) lasted six years, is probably still the bouncer with the perfect technique in history. Doplantis, as every pole jump expert suggests, is an unsolved puzzle. He does not have the polished technique of Lavalani, nor the descent into details that characterized Sergei Bobka and the "Petrov method," with which the Soviet / Ukrainian leap ruled the industry for years and raised it to 6.15 meters. Doplantis, everyone is sure, is a lift. "This boy jumps the way he deserves, intuitively," said coach John Carla Lisaga, "that's what makes him a genius in his field. He can enjoy and smile, jump like there is no pressure in this world."

Because of all this, the world was waiting for this leap impatiently. "We all know he can do it," he told Bilani this week, who previously hosted Doplantis in France for joint training, "just to let us know where and when." It was not 24 hours, and the message arrived.

At the opening of an Olympic year, Duplantis has already gone twice six feet, in addition to the world record set. Although the big jumpers reach their peak in their late 20s - Bobka peaked at age 27 and Bilani at 29 - Dupalentis' raw talent created the feeling that his record was only a matter of time. Because at the age of 20, Doplantis is already a virtue, a single virtue, from those born to do really great things. "It's great to have such talent in athletics," greeted Bobka, who surely knows that the young Swede is on his way to becoming the biggest pole vault ever.

Source: israelhayom

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