From time to time, sports give us unique clashes created to break the rules and attract the attention of spectators. In the case of athletics, we lived a strange 150-meter duel in 1997 that pitted the Olympic 100-meter champion, Donovan Bailey, and the 200 and 400 champion, Michael Johnson. It was an extraordinary event that managed to attract the attention of the whole world.
Today we witnessed one of these strange clashes, even more anomalous than Billy Johnson, because in the background they were runners. The athlete faced Armand Duplantis and Karsten Warholm, the world record holder in the 400 hurdles, in the 100-meter sprint. The fact is that Mondo did not give options to its competitor. From the starting gun, the Swede took advantage of the Norwegian, who probably thought that when he covered the meters, this would lose its power.
But nothing could be further from reality: Duplantis did not give up and finished with an impressive mark of 10.37 seconds, which is not far from the Swedish record for the distance set by Henrik Larsson in May at 10.08. In any case, the huge world King of the pole is in hectometers… As well as Warholm, who signed a fantastic 10.47.
The duel, promoted by Puma and Red Bull, took place a day before the Zurich Diamond League and gave a special answer to how fast Mondo Duplantis is currently, who reaches 37 km/h when running with his pole in his hands. The pole vault record had already announced that he was very motivated by this challenge.
