A strange thing happened in the men’s pole vault at the European Athletics Championships last month in Berlin. Well, three strange things. The first: 18-year-old Mondo Duplantis put the beatdown on a slew of experienced professional athletes—including world record holder Renaud Lavillenie of France—to win his first senior-level European Championship…
Reverberations from 18-year-old Mondo Duplantis’ electrifying 6.05m pole vault clearance on Sunday at the 2018 European Championships are still being felt, and among them is the peculiar question of whether the mark will be ratified as an American record. Duplantis, who owns dual American and Swedish citizenship, smashed his own…
