A passionate kiss for his fiancee Desire Ingland, warm hugs for his parents-and then a breakout outbreak: Athletic Armand Duplantis delivered the audience in the stadium at the Athletics Championships in Tokyo in Tokyo and worldwide after his renewed flight show for the golden pole vault world record of dizziness, also a fireworks of emotions.
53,000 fans were partly on their seats and were all too willing to attend unique mood symbiosis with the “Lord of the Air”.
The spectacle in the arena after the World Cup Hattrick with the 14th world record of his career for the Swedish superstar of athletics was also compensation for the sterile ghost games in his first Olympic victory in 2021 in the same place during the Corona pandemic.
“This World Cup competition has exceeded all my dreams and expectations, as it would be to jump in this stadium in front of full ranks,” Duplantis described his feelings afterwards.
The enthusiastic fans in the ranks were also the decisive factor for his fourth world best brand for the 25-year-old in the current year.
“It was a competition in one of the most beautiful stadiums with one of the best atmospheres I have ever experienced,” said Duplantis: “Four years ago I failed without spectators on the world record at the time, but this time the spectators made the difference that I made it, because I got all their positive energies from so many people.”