Swedish track and field athelte Armand Duplantis broke into wild celebrations after breaking the world record in pole vaulting in the ongoing Paris 2024 Olympics. In a video surfaced on social media, Duplantis was seen being ecstatic as he registered a new Olympic and world record, thereby hugging one of his family members.
Having scaled a new world record height of 6.25 m, Duplantis has breached the world record for the staggering 9th time. He also beat his own record of 6.24m, set in the Xiamen Diamond League in April 2024. The noise went astonishingly high when the youngster had breached the record, given how he achieved perhaps the greatest jump in history.
"My biggest dream since a kid was to break the world record at the Olympics" - Armand Duplantis
Speaking after his winning effort, Duplantis claimed that it was an out-of-body experience and that he hardly dreamt of breaking the world record in front of an enormous crowd. As quoted by Olympics.com, he claimed:
"I haven’t processed how fantastic that moment was. It’s one of those things that don’t really feel real, such an out-of-body experience. It’s still hard to kind of land right now. What can I say? I just broke a world record at the Olympics, the biggest possible stage for a pole vaulter. [My] biggest dream since a kid was to break the world record at the Olympics, and I’ve been able to do that in front of the most ridiculous crowd I’ve ever competed in front of."
