{"id":2404,"date":"2024-08-20T14:51:55","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T14:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/2024\/08\/20\/city-event-duplantis-up-close-for-the-pleasure-of-the-eyes\/"},"modified":"2024-08-20T14:51:55","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T14:51:55","slug":"city-event-duplantis-up-close-for-the-pleasure-of-the-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/city-event-duplantis-up-close-for-the-pleasure-of-the-eyes\/","title":{"rendered":"City Event: Duplantis up close, for the pleasure of the eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-justify\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:107%\"><span style=\"font-family:Aptos,sans-serif\">The Paris Olympic final is still fresh in everyone&#8217;s mind, with Armand Duplantis&#8217; fabulous world record. The extraordinary Swede, nicknamed \u201cMondo\u201d, once again reached for the moon, setting his 9th world record with 6m25. A performance achieved on the 3rd attempt, just as when he won the City Event 2022 in Lausanne with 6m10. The man, so beautiful to watch soar, is never stingy with his efforts. As well as winning, he puts on a show right to the end.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-justify\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:107%\"><span style=\"font-family:Aptos,sans-serif\">There&#8217;s no reason why Wednesday&#8217;s competition shouldn&#8217;t once again go well beyond 6m. \u201cMondo\u201d will be boosted by the presence of his main rivals, starting with <b>Sam Kendricks<\/b> (USA) and <b>Emmanouil Karalis<\/b> (GRE), silver and bronze medallists respectively in Paris.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-justify\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:107%\"><span style=\"font-family:Aptos,sans-serif\">World runner-up <b>Ernest Obiena<\/b> (PHI), American <b>Chris Nilsen<\/b> and French stars <b>Thibaut Collet<\/b> and <b>Renaud Lavillenie<\/b> will be looking to confuse the field.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-justify\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:107%\"><span style=\"font-family:Aptos,sans-serif\">Young Swiss hopeful <b>Valentin Imsand<\/b> (record 5m61) will be taking advantage of the opportunity to learn and, if possible, go high too!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City Event kicks off the 49th edition of Athletissima on Wednesday August 21 with a...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-2404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lausanne"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2404"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=2404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}