re: Mondo Duplantis broke the men’s pole vault world record for an eighth time

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It always interesting to me, especially in Olympic sports, how one person can be this much more dominant than everyone else.

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For alot of the Olympic type sports, I think it’s a combo of a generally small talent pool of people who actually have access & financial ability to do the sport + being from a long line of athletes in the sport who brings their kids into them early.

You have that rare combo of talent + athleticism + familial knowledge of the sport with Mondo when it all comes together to give us the goat of the sport essentially.