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Armand Duplantis sets a new world record mark of 6.20m at the IAAF World Athletics Indoor Championships on March 20, 2022.
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For the record, that was not an Unidentified Flying Object you saw on the weekend. It was only Armand Duplantis exploring his version of the final frontiers of space. With a pole, one might say, this vaulter is simply magnetic.
In Tokyo last year, after he won Olympic gold, I met this fellow who is part-Swedish, part-American and part-astronaut. Then he held the pole vault world record of 6.18m and said: "I definitely want to get into the 6.20s. That sounds really cool."
