He Just Broke Track & Field Forever

[@Krishnakumar-wl7ih]

Someone : You can be anyone you want Mondo : OK... I want to be the Y axis of the graph.

[@mojayz3627]

In our 3d world, wouldn't that be the z axis? Sorry to be that guy lol

[@gaminpup0867]

@@mojayz3627 The z-axis is forwards and backwards or in and out-the y-axis is still up and down.

[@formyeve]

xD

[@mldag1678]

The way EVERYONE in the stadium stayed to watch Duplantis latest world record attempt even though every other event had ended... it's was crazy to watch also knowing how many people were at home watching through screens

[@aldopedroso6212]

The horizontal jumps are the only events that you know beforehand that if they clear it's a world record. Watch a race and you don't know if it's a record until the race is over unless they are absolutely destroying it.

[@danfors1333]

They just want to see him tear his nut sack with the pole. It's an accident waiting to happen. Pole vault is track n fields version of NASCAR.

[@Fast__Snail]

Gotta admire Mondo's patience by increasing 1cm a couple of times a year. If I had this level of dominance, I would have jumped 6.40 back in 2020 and foolishly squandered future paychecks 🤣

[@trevorregay9283]

well, what is worth more to someone.....the money or setting a record that may never be broken again.......he is hoping to do both, but of course, it might not always be possible.......age, injury or death can put a halt to this and prevent us and him from ever knowing what he might have been able to max out for real.......

[@thedailystride5407]

Yea monetary incentives are crazy to go slow. He’ll make 1 million plus easy in 3-4 seasons if he keeps the patience

[@tylerellis2725]

Got to keep in mind that track athletes get $100k bonus every time they break a world record. So for financial reasons only going up a centimeter at a time is also $100k in his pocket instead of he tried and succeeded by going up a whole 15 centimeters he would be missing out on $1.5 million

[@michaelu910]

@@trevorregay9283it would be better to put a record out there that would be untouchable like 6.35. Who knows what bubka would’ve went for if the extra prize money wasn’t there

[@tamasbrenyo1348]

Well, pole valut is one of the easiest discipline from this point of view. Bolt could not have ran a WR each time lowering by 1 hunredth of a sec.

[@the_sad_wallet1553]

It should be noted that, despite offering no WR bonus, he still went for the world record at the 2024 Olympics for the love of the sport, and naturally he crushed it As a Swede, Mondo is our greatest pride since Ingemar Stenmark edit: of course there are other athletes we are proud of, but to my knowledge there is no one as dominant in their sport, nor universally beloved, as Mondo and Ingemar Stenmark. Every time Stenmark competed, the nation stood still and just watched in awe. That’s the effect Mondo has had the last 4 years too

[@acebenhood7671]

Zlatan?

[@acebenhood7671]

Him Zlatan and Mondo are our trio.

[@1998Cebola]

He's nowhere near Zlatan, he's more at Sarah Sjöströms level

[@maltegodkas4931]

​@@1998Cebola its the reverse. Zlatan is nowhere near Mondo or Stenmark. Stenmark was the undisputed ruler of his sport, so dominant they had to change the rules to give everyone else a chance. Mondo is so much better than any other pole vaulter in history that the sport has changed from "who is going to win" to "who is taking second place and will mondo break his own world record for the 10th time this season". Zlatan was at his peak in the top ten players of the year, but he was never even close to the best.

[@minguk]

​@@acebenhood7671 zlatan doesn't have any major wins tbh.

[@tazaman2009]

And Duplantis topped off his 2024 season with a 100m win over the 400 m hurdle record holder Karsten Warholm.👏🏾👏🏾😎👍🏾

[@ericwong3868]

Seriously ? Haha

[@tristanbunke1228]

​@ericwong3868 yeah lol. It was widely watched and 10.37 from a non sprinter is pretty nuts lol(other than long jumpers, most are fast)

[@simbaar7953]

hes doin sidequests now

[@Thatguyinthecorner99]

@@tristanbunke1228 A time of 10.37 is crazy. People were qualifying for the first round of the 100m in Paris with times in the 10.40s

[@Myrslokstok]

@@tazaman2009 It is like completly sick to, I tought it was that other norweigen 1.500m runer, to beat any world class 400 m hurdle runner is crazy to me, and he beat Karsten the greatest ever, mindboogling!

[@mikaeljohansson7848]

Sweden is so proud of him and with his great personallity he have won our hearts

[@AimingAtYou]

Sure, but it does kinda sting that he actually wanted to represent USA, but they didn't allow his father to be his trainer, so he picked Sweden because of that.

[@mikaeljohansson7848]

@AimingAtYou it really doesn't.

[@Vivungisport]

​@@AimingAtYou I think this clumsy move U.S Athletic made prolly stings em even today oouuh!!😂

[@StillRooneyStarcraft]

@@AimingAtYou Surely it would sting US, not Sweden, hehe

[@kristofferhellstrom]

​@@AimingAtYou It doesn't sting at all. Sweden is the best place for Mondo to keep growing 😊

[@DDHDTV]

breaking WRs casually while holding back is such a cool flex honestly

[@denetteledet8518]

Mondo and his brother went to the same elementary school as my children and during a track meet I watched those kids run track and I knew there was something special about them. Very athletic. Congrats to Mondo!

[@darthvader1494]

Lol that win margin would be as if the second place to Bolts 9.58 would be 10.24 seconds 😅

[@Myrslokstok]

And it was like 9.8 and he was humiliated 🙄

[@jujucasar2003]

9.58 x 1.0404 = 9.97 seconds not 10.24 math better plz

[@anarchclown]

Speaking of 100 meters. Funnily enough. Mondo Duplantis runs 100 meters in 10.37. And 100 meters isn't even close to his event.

[@Merecir]

@@anarchclown Sprinting IS pretty close to his event, he's just normally running with a pole in his hands.

[@aldopedroso6212]

Then he wouldn't even compare to Bubka, he'd have to jump 6.37 to have imporved the world record as much.

[@XzaviarMartinez7]

Mondo is such a freak athlete, it sucks that his event isn’t as popular as events like the 100m. He deserves a lot of recognition. At least he’s getting popular Edit: beating Karsten Warholm gave him a lot of popularity Edit: 200 likes!!! This is the most I have ever had, thank you so much

[@pookielebron23]

wouldn't really be a popular event if its just him against himself

[@keithv3767]

His dominance probably does hurt his celebrity. Wahrholm needed Benjamin to propel his popularity beyond just track fans. Mondo’s closest competition is the records of Bubka from 40 years ago.

[@rafabar6652]

@@keithv3767 Not really. It's just a sport that noone cares about since 99,99% of people didn't hold a pole even once in their lives

[@Frag2xx5]

the majority of sweden knows his name, but yeah he should be more famous worldwide

[@krogan3760]

Still at the Olympics when he broke the world record he was the only active athlete in the entire arena and not a single person got up and left.

[@Good13man]

Pay the man! He’s the GOAT! He’s setting a bar for everyone else to follow! GREAT STUFF!

[@aldopedroso6212]

Has a ways to go to compare ot Bubka, he would have to jump 6.37 to raise the world record by as much.

[@Good13man]

@aldopedroso6212 nonsense.

[@aldopedroso6212]

@@Good13man Nonsense is an idiot who doesn't follow track commenting on it... or maybe simply not understanding math. Bubka, the record was at 5.91 when he started, 6.14 when he finished, that's 23 centimeters, not so good in math man. The record was at 6.16 when Mondo started. 6.16 + 0.23 is how much? C'mon you can do it!

[@Good13man]

@@aldopedroso6212 enough with your ad hominem attacks.

[@231karatekid]

There is an interview with Mondo shedding the myth of 100k per record. That is, if I recall, a once per year deal.

[@CarlFredrik-uo1cu]

Duplantis has won 63 out of 74 finals (outdoors only) in his entire senior career (2019-2024) Sergey Bubka won 141 out of 189 finals (outdoors only) in his entire senior career (1983 to 2000)

[@garrettanderson4386]

Cool statistic.

[@justas423]

Seems like they're at a similar pace. 5 years vs 17 years. Duplantis might even overtake if he can keep this pace up.

[@aldopedroso6212]

Not sure of your point, Duplantis wins 85% of the time Bubka 75% and i don't think he is going to start winning LESS. Duplantis would need to jump 6.37 to improve the world record by as much as Bubka did and he's not at 6.27.

[@carl_hansson]

@@aldopedroso6212 Most people I've seen talk about him seem to think Duplantis is taking it slow deliberately to keep the hype going and also to earn more money. Continually breaking world records is more lucrative a business than breaking it by a wide margin once and then struggling. And we have seen he clearly in many cases clears the bar by quite a margin so maybe it is possible with some time, who knows? But also he will start getting older at some point and even though it probably isn't for some time he will start having problems reaching the same heights he once did easily.

[@aldopedroso6212]

@@carl_hansson I'm from an era that I've seen a PV world record broken by 8 cm. Currently it makes no sense to skip a centimeter AND $100k. WHY would anybody do that? ANYBODY is going to struggle eventually as they near their potential. Assuming he can jump 6.35, he is going to be struggling at 6.32. Assuming he can jump 6.50, he's going to be struggling over 6.45.

[@bennylevine387]

I like your channel and will continue to subscribe. And I know what you're trying to do with titles. I'd be a little cautious, however, to not mislead people, even unwittingly, by feigning that something incredible happened in track and field, when in effect the only thing that happened was you looking at something that already happened a new way. I get it. There's no track and field events now where anyone can break anything. But it's not cataclysmic in any way when nothing happens other than you finding a way to perceive something that makes it seem more incredible than it was before. That in itself is not news. And nobody just broke anything.

[@bennylevine387]

@@dudemanismadcool The thing is, his alternate statistical perspectives are sometimes really interesting. It's just starting in a hole when the outlook itself is portrayed as an actual track and field occurrence. It rings as being disingenuous and even conceited that one would think some uncovered statistical wrinkle is earth-shattering enough to warrant this kind of language. Framed a different way, it's perfectly-fine content.

[@andrewmitchell5807]

Good content, ridiculously stupid titles. He takes his audience for a bunch of children who will only click on the flashiest of bullshit titles. Someone should teach him about the boy who cried wolf

[@JonathanRBarnard]

I regard click-bait titles as a price of admission for getting good content from KZbin creators in niche areas who want to make a living with it. They deserve to be compensated for the level of professionalism in the video itself, so I am willing to forgive their titles.

[@JA-ut8fi]

I believe he said he just now did this because the scores barely came out.

[@xavierleo5043]

He does this constantly. TRP puts out great content , but I’m so tired (for example) of “this has never been before” and it’s like some junior national SEASONAL (not distance) record. Like an indoor 200m Australian junior high school record. Might be hyperbole but you get the point. And the Matthew boling videos for like 2 years, omg. He was great in high school WE GET IT. But sort of fizzled out as a pro and hasn’t found the same success in 200/400 meters. But still pumps out constant videos about him? I stopped clicking on Matt boling videos a long time ago. Now we will get Gout Gout videos biweekly for months I bet. He’s talented I get it, but maybe just do it for MAJOR milestones.

[@davidpadilla6095]

He is just on another level!!!

[@CarlFredrik-uo1cu]

Duplantis has won 63 out of 74 pole vault finals in his senior career. He was undefeated the 2020 and 2024 season. Jakob Ingebrigtsen's winning percentages his entire senior career (outdoor) 1500m 19 out of 27 finals Mile: 4 out of 5 finals 3000m: 3 out of 4 finals 5000m: 8 out of 8 finals

[@claude_k]

2:54 "a score so high that is makes every other score like casual moments". OF COURSE! Your chart starts at 1480 on the y axis, you can make any tiny difference look gigantic with this type of skewed graph! When in fact Duplantis' score is only 4.3% higher that Kipyegon's! Yes, at this level, it is not negligeable and quite impressive, but still... do not be fooled by a deceptive display of numbers.

[@justas423]

Thanks for pointing that out Graph trickery is very annoying.

[@spdcrzy]

"Only" 4.3% is MASSIVE in a world where a TENTH of a percent is the difference between winning and losing.

[@claude_k]

@@spdcrzy I acknowledged it as "quite impressive" if you read past the number. A record improvement of 4.3% within the same race, jump or throw, would be mindblowing, but the comparison here is rather artificial in the first place!

[@michaelanthony4750]

Yeah this guy exaggerates a lot

[@genoric4094]

@@claude_k”quite impressive” is an understatement and a half. Among the most impressive achievements in track and field history is precisely what it is. Achieving a score like that… that’s alongside Powell’s 8.95, Kipchuge’s sub 2-hours, and Bolt’s 9.58 of impossible.

[@benjathemin]

What you’re saying about him having jumped 6.3m by now if he wasn’t doing the 1cm increase each jump is a bit inaccurate. If you’ve heard him talk, the highest he’s jumped in training is like 6.1m. The reason why he’s gotten to jump so high is because of the adrenaline of the day and just how well he responds to jumping in front of audience. Like he’s essentially jumping a cm at a time because of the incentives but also because if he misses, he can just go back to the same height without many doubts about his ability. If he did attempt a very high jump and fail(not the typical 1cm increment), he’d probably second guess a lot and be unsure of how much he needs to pull back if at all. The 1cm increase has monetary benefits for when he breaks it but it’s also just a good target to set for yourself because you’re not sure you can go the whole distance all the time.

[@TaseMagu]

While that is true, remember that Bubka's performances came at the height of cold war. I mean if we are talking about adrenaline... Bubka's levels were of the chart because it wasn't just about him... it was a clash of empires in every competition. In this conext Mondo's performances are even more special since he has to find that adrenaline rush inside from the pure joy of competing just with himself.

[@benjathemin]

@ i feel like you misunderstood my comment. I’m not downplaying on his impressiveness in even the slightlest. I’m just saying that the fact that people think he’d have jumped a lot higher by now is a misconception. In reality for instance, Mondo knows in his head that he can get to 6.27 with high certainty but as of now he’s less certain about 6.3. My point is that as humans, we’re more geared towards incremental improvements rather than an all at once big jump improvement. Since if we fail at the bigger increments, it messes with our confidence as compared to much smaller increments.

[@TaseMagu]

@@benjathemin I understood what you were saying, but I believe it doesn't apply here. If anything it has the opposite effect This event literally incetivizes you to not produce your BEST, but 1 cm more than your previous BEST. The ideea is that maybe Duplantis can jump 6.35 NOW, but maybe by the time he will push the WR at 6.31 , 6.32 he might not be able to jump 6.35m anymore. It was measured he was over 6.3m already a couple of times, but the WR was registered for where the bar was set. These competitions should incetivize athletes to give their best at their peak. Take Usain Bolt for example. I'm sure he could have run under 9.5s in Beijing, but he held back. Which is OK. He broke his own record again in Berlin next year. I'm sure he tried again next years, but he couldn't get the peak he had in Beijing. As far as I am concerned even though Usain Bolt has WR in Berlin, he actually had his peak in 2008. I would love to see Duplantis jump as much as he can, but because he doesn't get anything for breaking the WR by 5-6 cm, I'm afraid we won't.

[@TaseMagu]

@@benjathemin Oh yeah! An something else I forgot. When you say he's training at 6.1m.... let's not forget this guy does in training a height that is enough to win gold medals in all competitions :) I mean to do 6.1m is literally vaulting an all time top 10 height (if you take his own jumps out).... in training .... Jesus. Think about it... in the history of this event there's only 2 people besides him that ever jumped over 6.1m... and he is casually doing this in training. In any case, the goal of training is exactly that... to peak at competitions, not in training.

[@grytlappar]

The way he broke the world record in the last event at the Olympics this summer, with an otherwise empty arena, in front of some 50, 000 people - not one person had left - all holding their breaths... Pure magic; shivers. And he competes for Sweden! Oh for crying out loud... Bless him having a Swedish mom.

[@danielfreeman649]

Great insight into why Mondo would only be motivated to raise the bar 1cm at a time!! Wow

[@fulalbatross]

Bubka had the same deal, and did the exakt same thing. He reportedly cleared 6.20 in training, but increased the WR by a centimeter at a time from 5.85 to 6.14. Eventually being to old to jump 6.20 any longer once he got the record to those heights.

[@Virgil_Thrasher]

Hey bro, love the content. Would you ever consider covering ultra running events? Anything above the marathon. I feel like there's untapped potential in that.

[@tavishurn2585]

Bubka did the same, in fact Duplantis has a way to go before matching Bubka's 35 world records.

[@LeChuck1717]

Bubka broke the the outdoor WR 17 and indoor 18 times. So its not that far away... but yes, Bubka is legendary in this sport.

[@MaxSoininen]

Im not trying to diminish anything. But compare the time spans and Mondo looks even more insane.

[@jazzyrick]

Back then there were separate indoor and outdoor records. Those have since been combined. There is just one world record regardless of whether it's indoor or outdoor. Mondo will never break 35 world records. He'd have to jump over 6.5 meters to do that. He will likely get into the 6.3s though.

[@tavishurn2585]

@@jazzyrick There are still separate records - 6.22 indoors and 6.26 outdoors, both of course by Mr Duplantis.

[@jazzyrick]

@@tavishurn2585 I'm sure they track both, but the bonuses and "official" world records have been combined.

[@rubenlopez8591]

Been waiting for a video recognizing this mans dominace

[@cristix11]

It is uncanny his natural talent and technical precision. He's probably the fastest pole vaulter ever.

[@Mrsuuuuuiiiiiii]

This guy is a legend😊

[@biju358]

video starts @ 3:20

[@neillgowans4350]

He is the very definition of dominance. It is rare to have any record holder feathering in this manner because he has NO-ONE near him so is never going greater than 80%.

[@12Khiry]

One of the least competitive events…..

[@DDHDTV]

he really is, not sure if there were any athletes able to casually break WR while holding back, except for Bubka himself maybe

[@HoovaHee]

​@@12Khiryyes, one of the least competitive events because one athlete is miles above everyone else. But pole vault has never been at a higher level than it is now, in terms of 6m jumpers.

[@andrearatkovic4048]

Such a well-spoken, intelligent, and beautiful athlete. Great spokesperson for sport!

[@sofiastenfeldt3346]

Sergei Bubka won 17 world records in pole volting, raising the bar from his first WR at 5,85 in 1984 to 6,14 in 1994.

[@guitarsandcheesecake1632]

No mention of Marita Koch!! The greatest 👍👍👍

[@CeRz]

He is just on another level... 1 cm at a time.

[@MichaelPorter-r4p]

Enjoyed watching Mondo's 2024 performances-hopefully more world records to follow in 2025.

[@Dwiimor]

Are we not even going to mention that he even beat Warholm in his own challenge in 100 m?

[@richardhudson4649]

3:40 Since that time no one has jumped higher than 6.07..... Except Mondo who has done it 25!!! times.

[@Navyyseal2895]

I’d say Tadej Pogacar in cycling is likely the most dominant athlete in sport at the moment. However, this is impressive. The Zurich meet really puts that in perspective.

[@foffplease3944]

Tadej Pogacar is not an athlete, he is a bike band.

[@Tlonedyr]

@@foffplease3944How is he not an athlete and some people playing with a ball are?

[@alpd7638]

Wrong slovenian... it's actually janja Garnbret

[@Tlonedyr]

@@alpd7638 Who’s Janja Garnbret?

[@foffplease3944]

@@Tlonedyr he is Tadej Hondacar

[@LeadershipAlliance]

SENSATIONAL REPORT & REPORTING! Viva Mondo! 🎉🎉🎉

[@JonasLindström-n2k]

And he beat Norweigian world champion sprinter Warholm in a 100 meter race.

[@michaelanthony4750]

He's got so much room when he clears the bar. 😆😆😆

[@TheHuskyK9]

Fun fact: Mondo and Sha'Carri Richardson competed together in the NCAA when they were at LSU

[@jjjoker5766]

I believe there was an interview where mondo was asked if he was purposefully increasing by 1cm each vault for the money, and he denied it, saying that he trains extremely hard for each cm, and that he sees each one as a huge accomplishment.

[@HoovaHee]

So many things have to be executed to perfection for him to jump a WR, yet people take it for granted that he's able to jump ~10-15 cm higher. Says everything about how dominant he is.

[@ocircles738]

I mean ofc he'd say that :'D

[@ryangross6599]

its weird that the scoring system rewards this strategy

[@drakeonyou]

Bro is simultaneously farming and smurfing at the olympics

[@Myrslokstok]

Yes you can set it to what you wan't but still you have to jump 6:25 m and no normal jumper puts the bar to 10 cm above their record ever, you push it 1 cm at a time BECAUSE yoo might fail a record try otherwise!

[@Levi-31-03]

It’s said that Duplantis already jumped up to 6,40 in training. He just wants to get all the money. And I don’t blame him for that. For 100k a record I would do the same.

[@Myrslokstok]

@ Yes but who would ever do it any other way. You win and beat your record, you know it comes with some effort to, every jump (he could hurt himself)! 100k is peenuts for a WR in an established event like poolvolt!

[@CarlFredrik-uo1cu]

I think it's faIr to say that Mondo has surpassed Bubka. It will however be very hard to match Bubka in one aspect: World championships golds. Bubka won 6(!) consecutive golds from 1983 to 1997. If there was a 1985 and 1989 world championships (it was hosted every fourth year back in the day, before switching to every second year), Bubka would've likely won those too, making him an 8 time (!) world champion. Mondo so far has 2 golds and one silver in the WC, it will be exciting to see how many he can win.

[@rogerhuston8287]

Take a look at Swimming Short Courses two weeks ago. Gretchen Walsh part of 11 world records in 5 days, smashing some by a ton, might deserve to be in the conversation of best athlete today. Leon Merchon who broke Michael Phelps IM world records this year as well. They don't have the ability to measure a world record so they just beat them by unimaginable margins.

[@realistic_delinquent]

Thank you! 3 generational talents in the world of swimming right now, all very probably owning a better claim to “world dominance” than Mondo (Walsh, Marchand, McIntosh).

[@realistic_delinquent]

Also, Walsh had only competed in SCM 50 fly once before worlds, and she took 5/5 of the best times ever. Half the dominance of Mondo achieved in the span of 90 hours.

[@lestermount3287]

what is more amazing is they changed the rules on the pegs making it more difficult to clear heights

[@thomasahlenius3251]

Average win percentage of more than 4% translated to some other events: 100m: ~ 0,4 seconds Marathon: ~5 minutes Javelin: ~ 3,2 meters 3.000m hurdles: ~ 18 seconds Decathlon: ~ 350 points Mondo won the Olympic Games final, the ONE event every athlete aims for, in Paris with over 5%...

[@HeeroAvaren]

Bro doesn't start warmups until the last 2 are on their final attempts.

[@justas423]

When someone says someone "Broke forever", that either means they have a one night or one season performance where they perform out of their mind and never quite recapture that success again or they're a freak athlete who's performance and athleticism for that sport would be insane no matter the era.

[@roeeorland]

Showing a chart that doesn’t start at zero is an awesome way of increasing someone’s dominance. 😂 To quote Mark Twain: “There are 3 kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics

[@s34nvideos]

It's kinda weird that Noah Lyles is so high tbh

[@TotalRunningProductions]

A part of the rankings include athletes who do more than 1 event - and with Lyles winning the 100 and 200 meters in the world champs it raised his score a little bit. Factor his consistency he had in the 200 meters for years and he's been a prime candidate for top numbers

[@TheWayWithKhuwayne]

Not really, considering he has lost to only 4 men in the 200m since he's turned pro, won multiple medals and titles at Worlds, World Relays and the Olympics and has been on podium in every World/Olympic event he's taken on since 2019, it makes sense why he is so high up there. For all the things that have happened to Lyles over the years, he is one of the most consistent and well accomplished athletes in the sport currently.

[@TheWayWithKhuwayne]

​@@TotalRunningProductions100% agree

[@s34nvideos]

@@TotalRunningProductions Ok that explains a lot! Thanks for clarifying. Would be great to see Mondo do the 100m as well haha

[@spyrit35]

Didn't Sergei Bubka do the very same thing in the same event years ago? I could be wrong but I think I remember this.

[@spyrit35]

Just checked... Bubka broke the record 35 times.

[@duncanharvey2209]

Yes. It's kind of funny when people are not aware that he literally did the exact same thing.

[@jazzyrick]

@@spyrit35 Kinda misleading compared to modern times. Back then there were separate records for indoor and outdoor events. While he did break the records under the rules he didn't improve the previous record by 35 cm.

[@isaiahburish8311]

A cool extra million in World Records. Smart man

[@vividescence]

question, maybe for a video. How does the World Ranking Criteria system actually work? i havent seen many explanations on it

[@Anfa18]

At this point couldn't they just set the monetary bonus to $100,000 per centimetre and let the guy retire early.

[@billybob-wx2re]

the guy figured it out what a chad

[@zacharyvandervegt7536]

Gout Gout, a 16yo from QLD, Australia will rewrite all the books. He set a 20.04 in the 200m. He's officially faster than Usain at the same age.

[@HoovaHee]

It's still a big IF, if he can keep developing as a senior. You'll occasionally see the odd youngster performing at a ridiculously high level, usually thanks to very early physical development. Still a lot of work to be done for Gout². Goes for all sports, think about the HS basketball players with an early giant growth spurt, they'll dominate at their current level but doesn't mean they'll be at NBA levels years down the line.

[@zacharyvandervegt7536]

@HoovaHee yeah so true. I hope he stays with it, he's got pure natural talent

[@wk633]

The fact that Femke Bol scored significantly higher than Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone shows the bias this scoring system has against cherry picking events to enter.

[@anthonysavio3875]

Sydney run fewer races

[@Magnusfication]

​@@anthonysavio3875 very, very few races

[@Tadaia]

@@Magnusfication And yet she's run more in '24 than most of her peers in the 400M/400Mh, Gold medalists... Rai, Quincy Hall, Karsten, Paulino. Be careful of the narratives you latch on to.

[@michaelschultz1104]

Not cherry picking it’s actually competing. Bol competed week in and week out.

[@Someone-hi1nt]

@@Tadaia comment was referring to femke, not any of those people you named... when youre comparing to femke, yes she ran very few races

[@kevinkarbonik2928]

Flo jo was on roids.

[@literallyshaking8019]

Bro discovered an infinite money glitch.

[@Real28]

The only athlete who was as dominant was Tiger Woods. Relative to their sport, there was a time where Tiger won at percentages that never have been touched before or after. But Mondo is truly in his own realm.

[@Leonidas-eu9bb]

Total domination even without any kind of PEDs!

[@pepelopezcrecimientopersonal]

Are you sure??

[@Leonidas-eu9bb]

@pepelopezcrecimientopersonal yes

[@Cornilios2]

Ur videos r great!!

[@rookie0810]

Is it just me or what's with this guy and track and field being completely broken

[@KorZen10]

it's the fact that he's able to manipulate World Athletics into paying him $1,000,000 by not going at his full potential but yeah, def clickbait title

[@fulalbatross]

​​@@KorZen10 €100 000 is about $100 000, so far from a million dollars per record. And where's the supposed manipulation?? Bubka had the same deal. World records sell tickets to the arenas, it's a win-win. World Athletics would most likely be pretty annoyed if Mondo did 6.35 in 2022 and never set another WR.

[@KorZen10]

@@fulalbatross $1,000,000 because 10 world records. Maybe some people would be annoyed with just setting one record, but way more are annoyed that Mondo isn't going at his full potential. We know he can jump 6.35m, and he's refusing to. Track & Field is always about pushing limits and beating the competition by as much as possible. Ultimately though, it doesn't matter how annoyed people are. He IS breaking the system. Just in a very impressive way that literally only he can do!

[@HoovaHee]

​​@@KorZen10he can probably jump 6.35-6.40 with a perfect jump, in the form of his life, in perfect conditions. And that's ignoring the mental aspect, it's quite a difference raising the bar 1 cm over your PR vs 10 cm. It's why you'll see high jumpers clearing let's say 2.36 with a few cm margin then failing to jump 2.38, it's not easy to simply perform a perfect jump.

[@AllInTheGame01]

Love Mondo who's clearly a generational talent (but Bubka for at least the next 4yr OLY Cycle given his insane longevity from '81 - '01, 7 WC/OLY Golds & 35 WRs is still the PV GOAT imo esp when you consider he couldn't compete @'84 OLY due to the Soviet Boycott & the WC were every 4yrs back then unlike today), but PV has the in-built advantage of being able to break the WR 1cm at a time - making it perfect for Mondo, Bubka & Isinbayeva to collect multiple WRs & related Bonuses! Faith Kipyegon on the other hand not only has elite level range from the 800m to the 5K (possibly 10K & Marathon too eventually), but has broken the 1500m, Mile & 5K WRs winning 10 WC/OLY Medals in the process (7 Golds & 3 Silvers).

[@HunterThinker]

Multigenerational talent, son of an olympian, the only way to get this good is to start like Mondo, at age 5 and have the genetics, he probably could break 10 if he focused on it, as his PR is 10.37...the odds of that happening again in the next 50 years are slim to none, and if it does happen, it likely will be due to materials science and not the perfect combination of factors that resulted in Mondo's dominance.

[@judsdragon]

whenever i see or hear anyone saying he is the PV GOAT i always comment about Bubka, like Mondo he did things nobody else did and like u mentioned reigned supreme for 20 yrs, with the changes that have happened to equipment and training i reckon that the only person that could touch Mondo now would be a peak Bubka stolen from time lol now that i would pay good money to see

[@bnsz8704]

Mondo will get there

[@wayneegli8379]

No, Mondo does not get the bonus of 2 different sets of records for indoor and outdoor pole vault.

[@Dhirallin]

Longevity is a factor, but how can you call a man a GOAT over another man, when he has absolutely no chance of beating that other man? That to me makes no sense. Bubka wouldn't have stood a hope in hell of beating Mondo. Bubka was probably about the level of Lavillanie.

[@resorband]

forgot to mention that he challenged karsten warholm to a 100 m sprint and destroyed him

[@mikeso2084]

He's just so damn fast!

[@swedishmeatball4382]

He's looking forward to taking part in Sweden's relay team at Finnkampen next year. It's time to set a new national record for the team; it is actually three years older than Armand himself (the oldest record is the 4x400 relay; it's from 1972. Probably not a coincidence that both these relay records are from Olympic games).

[@daleal7250]

Don’t blame him at all for his approach. He’s maximizing the incentives established by the officials of his sport.

[@zk4761]

I wonder how naturally strong he is, he looks so slim. He has to be very strong to be PVer.

[@HoovaHee]

Yup, poles get heavier and heavier going up to his WR heights, but just as important is agility and top sprint speed. You'll see some very beefy vaulters (Piotr Lisek for instance), while Mondo has a more similar build to Lavillenie.

[@hellmalm]

Mondo is a winning machine! 🇸🇪

[@Idofz]

Everytime he makes the world record, he gets a sum of money from his sponsors. so instead of breaking it by 11 cm, he can make the world record 11 times in a row and earn 11 times more money

[@Yesat-Erday]

Pole vaulting is the only discipline where they can do that. Isinbayeva did 17 WR between 03 and 09 Bubka did 18 WR between 84 and 94 And looking at the charts it's often one athlete just dominating everything.

[@swedishmeatball4382]

I think you forgot high jump.

[@HoovaHee]

With perfect accuracy, yes. But now (longer) running events have wave lights, so a dominant runner could in theory slow down to break a WR by a smaller margin.

[@Gaming_And_Chill]

honest question how are those points calculated?

[@TotalRunningProductions]

Here's a more detailed look - worldathletics.org/world-ranking-rules/basics

[@TBIVoices]

For once, you didn't totally overstate something. Mondo''s dominance is quite remarkable, especially when compared to the only one who could really be considered on a par with him, Crouser. Of course, then there is Sydney, but she will never get their on world rankings.

[@juliapardieutroyer9993]

I agree with others that Bubka was perhaps the first to play the minimum increment game & ruled the pit for a lot longer. Duplantis would need to keep this up for about twice this long before he gains the title as best ever. Kudos on highlighting him though as he rocks...just don't want to forget the old guys :)

[@leatj3085]

Since he gets money everytime he beats the record, doing it 1 cm at a time gives him more money!

[@TheSlowMethod]

How about the triple jump?

[@alpd7638]

Dominance and athlete can only be one person...janja Garnbret

[@paulo9956]

Sometimes they show the difference between their body and the bar. Has anyone seen what would be the actual WR?

[@GardenChess]

I believe that’s more for high jump but it would be around 4.45 meters

[@kjford587]

Duplantis has high 6.30s easily, if not higher

[@michaelu910]

@@kjford587maybe 6.31

[@michaellopez2070]

That number means nothing if they can't retract from it fast enough. Like a high arch in high jump could just be temporary as they can't get out of the position in a way that would clear the bar, so what seems like a huge 6 inch clearance could really be a cm.

[@DeKleineBarbaar]

The fact that his IAAF score is so far ahead of the other athletes only proves to me that the scoring is a great idea, but not waterproof. Hard to compare a polevault record to a marathon one. Besides very talented athlete and I'm curious to see what his limit is

[@HoovaHee]

Comparing events is always going to be flawed. Some events barely change at all, for instance throwing events like discus/hammer or shot put. Meanwhile running tracks and shoes are under constant development and get better/faster with every season. How can you ever compare those events and their records?

[@indyspotes3310]

Seems like it would be a lot easier to simply make the payment $100k for each cm they break the record by. So if he cleared it by 5 cm, he gets $500k. It would allow him to truly go for it at every event and not waste his prime.

[@HoovaHee]

I doubt money is the primary reason he does it. Breaking multiple WR's is the only way for him to compete with runners with multiple events, for instance. As we see with Ingebrigtsen, he'll have 8-10 events where he can push for records (indoor & outdoor versions of 1000, 1500, mile, 2k, 2 mile, 3k, 5k).

[@JustFckNSmile]

After seeing the thumbnail, I thought George Russell gave up Mercedes F1 and joined Red Bull Track Team

[@WickedHumor]

Mondo using infinite money cheats via pure athleticism.

[@JonasLindström-n2k]

The former swedish world record holder Kjell Isaksson jumped 5.55 back in tje 70's.

[@ahmaddeeni]

Bro found a money glitch, they’re going to change the rules to avoid paying out 😭

[@BestKiteboardingOfficial]

Bro's using the Segei Bubka school of economics

[@moussesucree]

I HATE the charts that dont start at 0. it completely change the view and the scale.

[@DrDew-m7y]

The point total in this list has a lot to do with the total number of events you compete in as well as how you perform in each event, so if someone competes way more often than other competitors, but doesn't perform as well, they could still possibly accumulate more points. Now, if you are talking highest average points earned per event competed in, then Sydney would probably be on top of the list for women.

[@JaleM]

You should show the whole chart from 0 for context

[@floydwhite1338]

Can't believe I waisted 10 min for pole vaulting. Lol

[@grymkaft]

"you see in pole vaulting to win a single competition you only need to jump higher than the other athletes" So it works exactly like in every other track and field discipline? In fact like in every other sport in the world???

[@metalxmetalxmetalxmetalx]

Infinite money glitch 😂😂😂😂

[@JoshGrigonis]

The paycheck should just be 100k per centimeter, solves ths problem. Maybe throw in a bonus 100k if he breaks it by 5cm

[@christopherbrand5360]

The shame about these incentives to only improve the record by a centimeter is that there will be a day that he is competing when he could actually set his personal best jump and we/he will not know what that personal best is. He needs a real competitor to see what he can actually do.

[@stefanformgren4978]

and he also run 100m on 10,37 in 2024 when he beat 400m hurdler Karsten Warholm :)

[@wb1092]

He's a nut.

[@sol029]

Dude has learned from Bubka.

[@akarilotube]

He definitely doesn't suck.

[@emma.bridgeforth]

crazy 🤯

[@frankmollegaard1989]

Have they checked his jumpin stick?