Athletics: Armand Duplantis simply by to the ultimate – regardless of the morning rush

Resulting from heavy morning site visitors in Rome, Swedish pole vault star Armand Duplantis was half an hour late to the world.

– It feels prefer it’s at all times like this following I’m in Italy. I do not know in the event that they drive like loopy. I simply tried to not stress. Now I will most likely plan a barely earlier bus time for the ultimate, says Armand Duplantis.

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He needed to rush to heat up nevertheless it would not appear to have affected him a lot. Duplantis solely wanted to make one bounce within the qualifiers to safe a spot within the last. He simply bought over 5.60 and will then watch the remainder of the qualification from the sidelines.

German Lita Baehre, European Championship runner-up in 2022, didn’t advance from the qualifiers and the medal-prone Norwegian Pål Haugen Lillefosse was compelled to withdraw from the qualifiers on account of an damage.

The pole last takes place on Wednesday 20.20 and is broadcast on SVT.