Duplantis soars to win and world record
New Delhi, Sept. 16 -- Before picking up his pole and heading to the top of the runway, the Armand Duplantis routine included cooling himself with a miniature fan. The Tokyo humidity perhaps was the only irritant for the hottest property in world athletics and shining light in global sport who stamped his class again at the World Athletics Championships on Monday.
The 25-year-old Swede has dominated the men's pole vault to such an extent in the last five years that victory for him was a given going into the final. Having already set three world records this year, the rest of the field knew they would be done by the time Duplantis even got to the business end of his competition.
On Monday, Duplantis won his third straight world title alright...
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