Men's Pole Vault (Short Version). Meeting de Paris, Stade Sébastien Charléty, August 28, 2021

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was bad and he suffered some injuries that we understand in Lausanne and I don't think things have changed too much for the former world record holder, it is a shame that he came eighth in Tokyo, but he landed very badly just before the games in a competition and there was a wounded warrior, let's say the best of day 5 30 and you can see the frustration that Kyo backed him up with his first Diamond League winning batch on Thursday 23. years of kansas city not long ago I was working in a coffee shop as a barista now life changes a lot sitting in the hotel in the last 24 hours very very relaxed in fact a man enjoying life at the moment both professionally and away from the Track Kendricks, who has had a mixed past month, of course, is heartbroken to have missed the Olympics in Tokyo after testing positive.

It's something he's tried to remain very measured about in press conferences with the media, but you can feel the frustration and boldness. I say anger bubbling under the surface certainly when I was talking to the media yesterday, but always the still cheerful professional always sees the positive in life 55 before that, here's a 573 that makes a big noise and looks up and keeps wandering and Se he's left chatting away the last few days in Lausanne and very cleverly hides his frustrations so he wouldn't be covered up and kept out of the competition in Tokyo outside of the Olympics, but now he's making up for it.

Kendrick came in a good second in Lausanne behind Chris Nielsen. the Olympic silver medalists who bought

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ly but Kendricks maintains his perfect card and with that he has the advantage on his own so the world record holder and the newly crowned Olympic champion who said that having won that title in Tokyo took a lot of pressure off him He was expected to win, he won, but my goodness, and then he showed that he is human after all with a fourth place finish in Lausanne last week. He said he really made some bad decisions. He sometimes he just said you lose your brain.

In the heat of battle, his father, Greg Gregory Francis, of course, who was an excellent jumper in his day, was not in Lausanne just to give him that little hand that guided him at the helm and he said yes that day in the office, but the important thing is how you react and here you are with the opportunity to atone in Paris, that's better, well, you were getting the high, wasn't it the time you were getting the high in Lausanne? It was just the placement penetration that was uh he wasn't there getting the height. I'm going to have to give warnings to the planes soon.

He was far above that look. This should give us a better idea. Yes, the center of gravity is many centimeters away from that bar. He makes it look so easy and fabulous to watch, and if you watch other Walters. They seem like mere mortals in com

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on and you have to wonder how he does it. It feels so natural to him that it simply flows beyond the previous height. The entrenchment. No, that's not close. Valentin Laville and either failed at 5.73 seconds. his brother, who is far from fit, suffers from injuries and finished in tenth place, harry koppel, by the way, in britain, he did not reach his initial height of 5 30. no, well, it's a shame, it's a filter World class and it's fine. he had one attempt left he only surpassed the previous height on the third attempt three clear men remember so far that's all in 573 duplantis looking very good with two clearances two attempts and two clearances sam kendrick four attempts and four clearances the Americans here in Paris this weekend of the week he had some brilliant games, he was light on his feet and finished just outside the medals in fourth place, he was still only 21 and very much the future of us

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ing on the men's side was part of that close-knit group just as we were moving up to the bus a couple of hours ago it was quite fun to listen to anyway, Light Foot, yes, very good, very good at 573, so permission for the second time at that point joins Avienna Kendricks and Duplantis successfully at 573 , but it had a failure for the first time, so it's down.

By the way, the fourth upcoming event on the track is the men's 800 meters, which gets you out in about five minutes. Here's Chris Nielsen, some great competition he had in Lausanne two nights ago. The winner there, the 23-year-old with 582 in cold blast conditions, remembers. he scored 597 for that Olympic silver and was indeed fascinating the night before last in Lausanne. Several of his colleagues made fun of him because he had not yet joined the six-meter club. They were going oh oh, wait a minute. Six meters, there is someone. around here who hasn't run six meters who could it be and he was sitting next to them and uh they were laughing out loud at his expense and he was taking it on the chin like a real man and he'll be a member of that six club meters very soon i mean he's a huge guy there are a lot of rugby clubs i imagine chris would look at nielsen and say yes we could probably find a position for him i'm sure they could place him at 597 he just needs to find three centimeters to join that exclusive club, here it goes again, very, very efficient, good technician, makes it look easy, which is jumping from one building to another or from one structure to another, let's go back to this competition, which is like that, then you will reach the top.

I need a little help from his older brother because he has one more attempt at last chance greeting 573 and an interesting villainy that I mentioned that Duplantis did not have his father Greg in Lausanne and in his absence he said that actually was not. forget about one of your rivals who was giving you advice and here you are, you just have your own personal victory indicator, didn't you just say okay, now is the time, I can feel it, they can feel when the wind has died down enough and Here he is on the track and then he balances the Lavalini 573, so here is the man of the moment, the man of the last few years, really without spring.

Although Duplantis, of course, is just waiting for the wind to die down, he said he feels relaxed and free. Just to give you an idea, six meter magic barrier, six meter height, that we've talked about, he's only done it 26 times in his career and he looks very, very comfortable, in fact, you shouldn't forget that he's still only 21 years and has practically achieved everything there is. to achieve the undisputed world record indoors and outdoors and when you see, as we did at the press conference, there are two of them, bruno la villene duplantis and kendricks, you count thinking it's three musketeers, sam kendricks, then second attempt for him in 581 duplantis.

He's been clear, no, no, mckendricks this time, I can tell you that Chris Nielsen has been clear the second time he asked, so Kendrick is facing that now. Both uh obiena in fourth and casey lightfoot in fifth have had two misses, each of which lightfoot will make his third effort next. 581 seems to be the breaking point for several of these men who are not in the villanee escaping to the former height 573 the new kid on the block, so to speak, at 21 years old. I just missed the medals in Tokyo in this discussion. The other night, the man who tends to be a ring leader of sorts, whether you like Jeff Hartwig or so many of the jumpers who lead Chris Nielsen's taunts, Casey Lightfoot, just sat quietly on the side listening to him continue to learn. the jargon, so To talk, these

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s are very nice after the big championships, the African games or the world championships, there is no big pressure on the athletes, they are sure that they want to win, they want to perform well, they want to earn dollars , but the biggest obstacle of the season is behind them. really relax and have fun, that often leads to better performances, Casey Lightfoot, then third and final attempt, five meters, 81, as the lifetime best, 585 that was in the US trials, without clearing the field , yeah, sorry, it's good to see Chris Nielsen back there performing. like the human wind meter, like we saw La Villene do before, just further proof of the collective camaraderie between these jumpers, it's not forced, it's not manufactured, they really get along, they care about the support, Father Greg doesn't will be here again in Paris this weekend. and it's interesting that he was talking about what the coach's role really is, you notice them when they're not there is what he said, so obiena with his third attempt at 581 he came in fourth place behind the two Americans who are still only 25 year old. philippines, training partner of the former olympic champion, here he goes, then last chance for Vienna.

Oh, he did it brilliantly. Clutch jumping there and the crowd on that side really enjoy being out in the bright sun, spending quite a bit of time here in Paris and all. Vienna really enjoys it and we should say that too. At yesterday's press conference, each athlete was asked about how important spectators are and all of them, unsurprisingly, simply said that it is very important and particularly at this event. They really feel the love, aren't they from the crowd? Well, they do. It's a big pressure jump by Objena, just a couple of inches off his lifetime best of 587.

He'll jump to the hot bar after this goes up to 586. Here's, uh, Kendrick. perfect card up to this point but has really hit the blocks here clearances for the first time in four consecutive heights up to and including 573 now two misses at 581 jeff hartwig was advising casey lightfoot i'm going to chat with him anyway that's the last rejected effort what got him out of the competition now sam kendrick experienced remember kendrick is a two time world champion he is the reigning world champion well you can see the frustration there immediately as soon as he saw the bar was low hendricks exits finishes in fourth place in fair

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I wonder whether or not that is due to not being able to play as planned in Tokyo, he has thrown the spanner in the works and there he goes in 591 oh, he writhes about that brilliant, absolutely brilliant, of objena, well, that It's a new personal best, of course. new Philippine national record he, duplantis and nielsen agreed to go to 5.86 the three before reaching that height to climb this, he is the first to go and the ovary explodes and that throws down the gauntlet for nielsen, the next to go to duplantis .

He'll go after that, but the Filipino is at least momentarily in the lead Nielsen, so how will he respond? He has to leave his duties as Wingage and get back into action here. His first attempt at 591. No frustration for the Kansas big man. city ​​so two more tries to come but obiena what a vault really having fun he didn't see it coming and it's not often you see duplantis behind the serious john o'biena duplantis of course he only finished fourth in rosane on thursday finished out of the The top two or three were Oslo in 2019. He has such a refreshing attitude here.

So for me, Tim put aside his disappointment and shrugged. He said, "Look, these things happen. I made some bad decisions, maybe I selected the wrong poles for the wrong height my dad was." Here you have to move forward, let's move forward, let's not retreat well, can it move up? Here it coincides with obiena's first authorization because of course these guys have the gauntlet thrown at their feet by obby and his first authorization, here he goes alone. his fourth ball of the afternoon no, it's not a good ball the floor is rolling to the side and out of bed there is a breeze around the sand now possibly a little stronger than about an hour ago but no I don't think that really bothers them, they have the crowd right against them almost within arm's reach, but obiena looks very, very strong right now with that first permit.

Remember we saw his failure in 591, both surpassed any subsequent attempt at that. height, of course, I have not seen it in Vienna, of course, are they going for the victory or have you just seen their refusal, there it is to write a photo applauding Nielsen for the great camaraderie between these guys, it is a rarity, frankly, it is in Nielsen sports circles. to lead no, I still don't know what two more attempts, in fact, one more attempt. What I'm saying is a flop at 591, so there's real pressure on these guys. Now Chris Nielsen only had to make 582 to win in Lausanne. difficult conditions but these are much better conditions lovely sun a slight breeze which we think has become a little stronger but still negligible compared to the other night in Lausanne and this is now starting to get serious for mondo duplantis so just to recapitulate authorizations for the first time. for him at 555, 573 and 581, then passed at 586.

He failed for the first time at 591, nothing is gained from the second attempt, so he passed his second attempt at 591 in favor of climbing a higher height at 596. Therefore, it effectively has two. try at 5.96 and you can see the wind stops there with just a side breeze that certainly picks up a bit on the other side of the stadium as we watch from our commentary position and again it's okay, it's his surrogate father if I can call it that granola villainy in the absence of his real father, who is directing the proceedings using all his experience, unfortunately coming out of 5 45, that ankle injury he suffered justbefore tokyo it still really bothers him, he is still very involved here, father figure for duplantis he was just waiting for the conditions to be absolutely optimal when the windsock just fell it has slowed down a bit so obiena from the philippines led the way with the first authorization at 591 and failed at 596. here is dupress with his first of two attempts. potentially at 5.96 yes, would you ever doubt it now?

So how dare you believe that he was fighting there now playing to the crowd? Come on, he's excited and said: you know what Lausanne is, it's history, I've forgotten, let's talk about Paris. I tell you what, Chris, there was a lot of energy there too, wasn't there? There's more to come and maybe that's what excites him because he knows from the feel of it that it was a really strong ball. It wasn't just one punt in five nights. I played Nick Wiley too well. Obiena has had two failures. at 596 after having taken the lead with that first cliff at 591. then had to see sam, sorry mondo duplantis cleared at 596 the first time so he had two attempts at chris nielsen failed twice at 596 after of having failed in 591. he left and left so the piano has guaranteed himself second place here he goes first and just tries 601 no, but he goes for it, he goes fast and that implies a real ambition psychologically fed or listened to he was in great shape he is slipping away so duplantis so here we go 601 familiar territory for him, the world record holder, the Olympic champion and comfortable winner here in Paris with that victory by two heights clear so far because keep wondering friends, the bomb is officially at 606, but will wander around the planters here wanted to climb.

For something perhaps a little more significant the meet record is six meters by Sergey Bubka or at least it was and that was in 1985 36 years ago