Atletiekfenomeen Mondo Duplantis wil wereldrecord aanvallen op Memorial Van Damme

Mr can I say yeah please so nice um ni meet you so nice that you can join us nice to be here than it's it's an honor um you you coming straight from from Sweden I'm just going to turn your microphone a little bit this way or may someone else can do yeah this way okay it's broken can can someone come and fix it cuz it's broken a little bit yeah that's right could you keep it yeah thanks a lot you coming straight from Sweden yeah came from Sweden yeah yeah when is your competition on the memorial is it Friday or Saturday Friday okay cuz you've been to Brussels before yeah few times few times uh what do you think I like it you do yeah I do uh it's no it's a great meat have you ever been to the memorial it's a it's a really good meat I'm coming Friday nice good yeah cuz it's a uh good meat with good energy we got some we got some fans at the table he's following you he's been following you around he's television maker in Belgium okay quite quite a big one okay so shall we take a look at what happened in Paris sure to begin with definitely okay but does it work with this right now no we'll fix it straight away yeah let's go [Music] [Music] over [Music] [Music] [Applause] now for [Applause] [Music] what a not a teammate or anything just who you aiming for this yeah the next just everybody yeah just everybody I guess I don't know 625 that was I seem to remember that they actually as they always do they calculated how how high you went was it like 6:30 I think so I don't really remember what no but it was a good jump it was a good jump I mean I know that I had yeah some some room margin I guess you could say uh what's your best jump ever training 640 645 not even close maybe 615 I think is the best I've done in training okay he means probably like the oh no but no but it's not even close to as high as the competition jumps I need the adrenaline the energy I don't uh I don't grip as high I don't have the same energy and speed through the takeoff I use softer poles when I'm in training so um no I don't I don't jump as high so all all the heights that I'm why would you he had a specific question um that you went I think it was in Paris that you went to see your mom after a jump we we have a picture you missed you missed your first jump and then apparently your mom filmed the jump with her iPad can see the picture what what are you doing and then you you you went Consulting her what exactly did she tell you cuz like one minute later you you had the new world record yeah yeah I mean I guess for anybody that's watching that doesn't know my story I uh I'm coached by my parents and so uh it's and it's been like that from the very beginning my mother was a hep athlete father was a pter and uh yeah they're both my coaches you can see them alongside me during the the Olympics and all the competitions but uh yeah I think then for the world record I think it was just more the run I was just trying to figure out the run and you know it's a very specific Rhythm and feeling so what specifically does she tell you at that moment like I don't know too many steps too close too what was it I don't know I actually you were living the dream so yeah kind of yeah I mean uh I think really it's it's just like finding those first few steps and finding like the feeling within then because then it kind of sets up the rest of the jump and I think that also maybe I was being a little bit too timid on the last few steps rather than really just attacking it because I really need to make sure that I hit it with all the energy that I have to do something like that doing what every coach is doing between jumps I guess huh yeah small little small little margins and small little details yeah Mondo 10 times the world record uh two times Olympic champion and you're 24 24 is that old enough to realize what position you have these days in athletics probably not probably not I mean I think that I don't know I guess like as humans you adapt to your situations whether for good or for bad I mean you just it becomes normal in a way and and I feel like for me I I always had the confidence that I can be in the situation that I am now and of course I'm I'm very grateful and thankful for a lot of people and a lot of things that have happened the way that it has happened because fortunate but but I then at the end just feel like yeah this is this is what it's supposed to be like but what does it take for 24 year olds to handle all that cuz I mean everyone wants you in a TV studio want them I mean everyone wants a little bit of mlce um so how do you cope I don't know I mean I think that the past uh the past month has been the craziest month of my life for sure as far as just like buzz and people and there's a huge difference now I can I can definitely feel like just just outside of Sweden because I was always you know relatively popular in Sweden but I feel like now just even around Europe and I guess that's all I've been the past few weeks but uh since the Olympics it's like it's really really blown up you know and it's but still no pressure at all because I can imagine if you're that good and the difference between the number two and and yourself is so big there's only to lose I mean you can only lose if you start a competition but it I I don't get a feeling that you get a bit of pressure uh inside of you no I don't feel no I don't really feel pressure like that no uh I mean for me it's like I'm very confident in what I do of course and you know I know that the reason that I'm going into these competitions as a big favorite uh is because I'm very good at Pall team and and I can jump high and when I'm jumping good I should jump higher than the other guys because I know that that's just the ability that I have uh and and I'm very confident in that so I don't really I don't feel stressed about it I just focus on me and what I do and then it should work out what exactly makes you so much better than not than the guys at this moment but than anyone ever before I mean I was I'm 50 so I was watching sey B kind I said oh he's he was considered as the record never to be broken again so now there mon D is in going like more than 10 cm he was like 613 I think Was His Highest jum yeah yeah a little bit that area yeah so 626 now so what makes you what what concrete things what stuff makes makes you so much better than anyone else well it's got to be everything you know you need to have everything and it's not really just one specific thing I think you you it's it's a very physical sport so of course physically you have to be gifted but then also yeah there has to be the certain type of not only work ethic but knowing how to train also I think is is just as important because I mean I don't think it's not about training hard it's about training smart and and knowing what to do in training and how to how to prepare your body to pull up because it's a very specific and unusual movement I guess but then also the mental side of it is is really crucial and do your pths play a role in that the fact that your parents are basically coaching you does that matter they know you I suppose very well yeah better than anybody else probably yeah well I think it's I think that's I mean that's of course a big reason part of My Success of course is is them and you know nobody understands me my body and then mentally me more than my parents do and uh you know they have their own respective careers that they can look back on and also to help them give advice to me also and I think that that has helped so much because yeah I mean they'll tell you they've made every mistake that you can make and I think that's how you learn and so I get to reap the benefits of their mistakes and so I I I know the the path that's best for me in uh in that way and so I think that as far as when it comes to training the mental side of it and then just competitions and how to strategize things and I think I get all the the great stuff from I I will you when you started pole fting like three three Howes how does that how does that go the yeah the pole was just this long you know it was nothing I think it was like a you know broomstick just jumping on the couch but said hey that's my thing pretty much yeah but they there is videos of me actually in my backyard when I was four years old and I was really jumping like my father built a setup cuz my my father was professional poter and he built the entire setup for my older brother who's six years older than me and so yeah I just started jumping when I was like you never asked him what the is this I mean kind of I guess I mean for me it was like it was just normal it was like playing football you just like just kicking the ball playing football not at all it's not no it's it's completely weird and exotic and a strange sport but for me when I was younger it felt like it was the most normal thing ever because it was just what my brothers did it was what my father did and it was just like yeah just P let's let's go back to what you need to be a good Paul vter and I I knew you were fast my colleagues of the sports section they told me but what you did um the race with cast warom we're going to show the footage and um okay there was it's it's bit of entertainment as well of course he's a good friend of voice see you builded it up like a boxing match um let's let's can we watch that race please this this was a this was a preparation [Applause] and here comes a race dtis gets the best start as expected vhol is right there with him Duplantis has not giv this up though vhol tried to chase him down but dter continues to go away D gets it with a look back 10 1037 so you're racing actually the the world record hold are on the 400 meters hurdles uh Olympic champion in Tokyo number two in in Paris and I knew you were fast but 10:37 I killed him H and you stopped running like the last 10 Meers you you even watched them and smile at him like come on where was part of the game I guess yeah a little bit no uh I mean I I mean honestly I I knew that I'm fast of course I do a lot of I do a lot of Sprint training more more Sprint training than I think any other vter and uh because I we are we understand the importance of speed I mean speed kills and speed is is is how you create the most energy through the takeoff and that's how you use stiffer PS grip higher and that's how you get higher in the air and so it's it's very important in my event and uh what time would be possible if if you would you would have focused on the Sprint sub 10 ah sub 10 maybe is a bit is a bit of a stretch I mean maybe low in yeah faster than what I ran here of course because you know this is probably not even the best time of the year E I mean after the Olympics start to let loose a little bit and you start to lose a little bit your form it starts going a little bit down uh but um you know of course I was still in decent shape but I don't know really what I mean it would be okay it wouldn't be anything compared to the Americans and Jamaicans but if as far as Europeans then maybe uh maybe I can do a little bit damage well what we saw there uh of Mondo D plantas is is um is that is he a bit of an Entertainer as well in circumstances like these yeah I mean I guess so I like it yeah the best part was your press conference the day after do you do you have any memory about that your voice was gone you were sitting there I mean clearly there was some alcohol in between oh you you mean after the Olympics yeah yeah um yeah but it was the Olympics yeah and it was it was a tough it was a tough morning not much sleep but it was like I had um well I won the Olympics and I broke to W record and then I had like the biggest family reunion ever because of course I um also for those that don't know I I lived uh half my life in United States also so I have split families between United States and Sweden and it was the probably the biggest family gathering that we've ever had and then we also had quite a bit to celebrate too so Work Hard Play Hard Work Hard Play Hard or yeah play hard Party hard whatever you want to say um but yeah we had we had a we had a big night is that also what makes you it's like a for most I'm I'm not a a big expert on Athletics but the way I'm looking at you is like you at you same ball like being big big big bigger this is what is happening to you now I I this is the way I feel it um does is that also part of it like being taking it all in and and sticking the audience into your performance and for becoming a big start that goes beyond the sports of Athletics yeah I guess in a little bit a in a way but um but it has to be natural you know it has to just that's what it is it feels natural it does does come natural to me to a certain extent I mean whatever I'm doing it's just spur of the moment and it's just a feeling you know if I want to get the crowd engaged and I want to get everybody fired up it's just because it's what came to me in the moment it's nothing that's forced or canned and I and I think that people feel that too they can feel when something's a little bit too um too pushed and you know you know you you don't want it to yeah you don't want to force it I guess is the best is really what I'm trying to say so for me uh I mean I guess and and you also grow into it in a way I mean if you look at videos of me when I was 17 years old or 18 years old the first time I was at Memorial V Dam you know the competition here on Friday is I'm not the same person that I was you know then and then it's not because I'm trying to be somebody that I'm not it's more just because you you grow and you develop and you kind of you feel the role that you're in in a in a way also but uh but you just have to be authentic I think that's the most important what kind of a person is mon Duplantis when he's not in the stadium are you a family man I'm a family man yeah I'm very I have very very close relationship with my family also my girl's family and so uh I would say that's what I spend the majority of my time party animal other than that no not a party animal uh I mean depends on who you ask I guess I mean party anim I think poters are well it it takes a certain type of crazy person to be a poter because it's a crazy Sport and so I think that we're all a little bit we're all a little bit you know it's like the that in a way which I think uh so I think out of out of the track and field you know Community I think we're the ones that have the most fun yeah do you have any privacy left at the moment I guess it just depends but not not as much as it was before not all that much which is a bit weird actually um but you know but that's okay I mean I guess it it comes with it in a way it's very unnatural though you know you don't really get used to it that's that's kind of the only bad part about it is you don't get used to it like when it comes to like selfies and knowing you and stuff like that because you always you forget you just forget cuz you're just living life normally and you're just getting a Cofer and you're just doing whatever uh good but uh yeah it is what it is one last question million dollar question and we'll we'll ask it on on the footage of your last world record in Poland that was okay I guess uh 20 days after the Olympics yeah 626 so the million dooll question is let's see this first 6 M 26 bit higher than this studio how high can you go eventually you think how high can go um if you you have to answer it right now yeah if I have to answer it right now I mean of course 6 6:30 in the near future yeah I mean that's that's that's right there and and it feels like um yeah it feels like you know I'm knocking on the door of of 6:30 for sure um so starting with 627 a couple of days from now in BR maybe maybe we'll see I don't I don't Ru anything out you know as long as uh there's a lot of factors that that have to come together for me to do something like a world record and I need to have good weather and uh you know just a good good place to jump it's always nice if you have a good energy and good crowd too that also helps out Thrive off that but um you know those those kind of factors mean a lot too and actually the wind is probably the most important thing out of everything because it becomes really hard to it's it's never windy in Belgium it never rains it's never windy yeah you'll believe that yeah I'll take your word we wish you the best I going to that is cuz that's what they are expecting is that do you have a world record in mind when you go to a meeting like the memorial or um just the best you can both both best I can which usually you know I think in my mind can be a word record so uh yeah I mean I I always have that mentality that I want to jump as high as I can on the day and and try to get the most out of myself if I can if if a world record's in the cards and I I try to push it to that for sure uh so yeah I mean that's every time I shop up check there's still some tickets for Friday and Saturday so um that's good good to know for the people who are watching this for sure for sure but I jum on Friday so that's most important but you can go Saturday too Friday but Friday is the most let's go Friday yeah let's go Friday thank you so so much for joining us uh Mondo