Amazing scenes at the Olympics last night, as Mr Pole Vault, Armand Duplantis, won gold and broke the world record for the 9th time. But this seems a bit excessive from the Olympics twitter account.
Great image, though.
Without gravity, 6.25m would be nothing. Anyone could jump over anything. In fact, the problem wouldn’t be going up, it would coming back down. Imagine that he ran along, vaulted up… and just kept going.
World record? No problem.
Running out of oxygen and ending up in space? Slightly more concerning.
Also, I know he’s clearly been concentrating on his career in athletics, but what sort of person has never heard of gravity? It’s a bit of a fundamental when it comes to education. It’s rather insulting to suggest that he’s a one trick pony.
No need for this sort of nonsense. Or this:
Anyway. Last night we watched the pole vault.
This evening, we’re watching a Lithuanian on the parallel bars.