MONACO — Lafayette’s Armand “Mondo” Duplantis finished second in the pole vault in Friday’s Monaco stop on the IAAF Diamond League track and field tour. Duplantis, who earlier this season was a winner in the Prefontaine Classic, had a best clearance of 5.92 meters, 19 feet, 5 inches. That was…
On a week where nothing seemed certain, where no favourite seemed impervious to the pressure of a major championship final, Sweden’s Armand ‘Mondo’ Duplantis was ice cool, dispatching his rivals to take Sweden’s first ever men’s pole vault gold with the minimum of fuss. It’s a measure of the 18-year-old’s…
