The world of pole has been looking for someone to bother, even a little, to Armand Duplantis. The pole jumping genius exhibits one of the most overwhelming domains of world sports, always a good number of centimeters above all others and accumulating world records while their rivals applaud, unable to hate it, despite everything.
The end of his reign is not attacked except that a similar prodigy arises, but in Nanjing there is finally someone who dares to cough in his path. It is the Greek Emmanuel Karalis. ‘Manolo’ or ‘Manolito’ for the rest. Bronze in the Paris Games, European champion in Apeledoorn and now runner -up of the world. The only one, together with Duplantis, to rise in Nanjing above six meters in China (6.05, new personal brand). His insolence forces Duplantis to jump over 6.15 to ensure gold, the most level of recent times.
Nanjing the Duplantis cube, the most vigorous star of this decaffeinated World Cup. The Swedish responds to the applause by throwing kisses while accommodating the resting area of the athletes, half lying with the elbows on the floor and a massage in the lower back. It is still wrapped in the yellow and blue tracksuit in Sweden while letting the first round pass. He knows that a long final awaits him.
It turns out to an discomfort having to remove the tracksuit to overcome, at first, about 5.70 and 5.90. It seems too easy, but it is not at all. By then he only has five rivals left, who are two (Karalis and the American Sam Kendricks) when he rises, also without failure, about 6.00 meters. Duplantis snorts, hits the chest and bows to the stands.
Normally the competition would end there. But Karalis, also immaculate its contest until then, renounces those 6 meters, more to secure the silver against Kendricks (two failures over 5.95) than to think about standing up to the Swede. The Greek, who jumped 6.02 only a few days ago, precisely in the Mondo Classic, surprises saving the bar the ribbon over 6.05. Duplantis, sitting in a chair, applaud.
Both squeezes the Hellenic that Duplantis fails for the first time over 6.10. Is there a glimpse of doubt in the Swedish reaction? It seems, but no. The second arrives, but not gold. After two null over 6.10, Karalis asks for another five centimeters for his last attempt, which forces Duplantis to also exceed that height. There, he is already champion.
The spotlights point only to him, but Duplantis surprises putting the tracksuit for the last time and ending his contest without trying a new record of the world. Karalis has made him jump seven times and is tired. It doesn’t give more. There is a certain aroma of disappointment.
Another gold for ingebrigttsen
In one of the long stops in which Duplantis rests, it is the turn of the other Nanjing colossus. Jakob Ingebrigtsen adds his first gold in a world -based World Cup after overcoming the Ethiopian Berihu Aregawi in the 3,000 meter final. The Nordic must wait for the final stretch to exceed the African combative, last minute guest to this appointment, engaged in longer distances in recent times (it was silver in the 10,000 of Paris and won the last San Silvestre Madrid).
Ingebrigttsen takes advantage of his powerful ending to win in 7: 46.09, overlapping a rough race, of unequal rhythm and too many changes in head that force him to be attentive from the beginning. He does not want to wear out the Norwegian prodigy thinking about the 1,500 final of this Sunday and another possible double. But two other Ethiopians, Wale and Mehary, who end up hoarded after tightening the plugs to the favorite, without success, seeking the favorite.
Ingebrigtsen adds its third world title, the first on covered track, to gain an absolutely huge record for a 24 -year -old boy.
#Duplantis #gold #record #attempt #due #pressure #Manolito #Karalis
