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It’s tough being a favourite.

It’s tough being a favourite. The Olympic pole vault champion Renaud Lavillenie was supposed to waltz – well, not literally – to the world title. The 26-year-old Frenchman had jumped 6.02 metres a fortnight ago during the Anniversary Games in London. Ah, but that was London where he’d won Olympic…