The last attempt, the packed "Stad de France" stayed late into the night and waited only for him, a new world record was waiting... And then Mondo did what he knows best - he pushed the limits of dreams for the ninth time.
Only the sky is the limit for Armando Duplantis - the Swedish athlete born in the United States of America set the limit of dreams in the high jump at the Olympic Games in Paris.
She's now 6,25 - and it's probably only a matter of days before she's knocked down again.
The gold from Tokyo was defended by one of the best athletes on the planet at six meters, and then he set out to break records - first with 6,10, he broke the Olympic record, and then the world record on his third attempt.
For the explosion in Saint-Denis, for his run across the "France Stadium" and another page of athletic history with his signature...
How much he was just a story for himself this time is best shown by the fact that the silver medal was won by the American Sam Kendricks with 5,95, while the bronze medalist from Greece Emanuil Karalis stood at 5,90 - a height that Mondo did not even try to jump, but immediately started with 5,95.
For the first time, Duplantis broke the world record on February 8, 2020 in Toruń, Poland - before him, the record holders were Reno Lavileni from 2014 when he jumped 6,16 indoors and the legendary Sergej Bubka in 1994 outdoors with 6,14.
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