“We’ll see, but what I’m really trying to do this indoor season is break the world record. That’s the main goal, the goal,” Duplantis said when asked if he intended to participate in the European Indoor Championships in Istanbul from March 3-5. Almost the only one on my mind.”
Mondo had crossed the 6.10m barrier in his first competition this season on the second of February in Uppsala, Sweden, and then failed three times to cross the 6.22m barrier in his quest to surpass his current world record by one centimeter.
“I don’t have as many indoor competitions as I always used to. I have good memories in Berlin. The reason I am here is to give myself another chance to break the world record,” Duplantis said at a press conference in Berlin, where he will participate in the International Indoor Athletics Championships.
He continued, “The plan was to hold a very short season indoors this year, which I actually did by resuming the competitions late. The next two competitions will be in France in Levan (February 15) and Clermont-Ferrand (25 of it).”
It is noteworthy that Duplantis, 23, has succeeded in breaking the world record for pole vaulting five times so far, and the first was indoors in Torun (Poland) in February 2020 (6.17 m), and the last fifth outdoors in the American city of Eugene (Oregon State). ) last July at the World Championships in Athletics (6.21m).
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