It's So Much Worse Than We Thought...
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- čas přidán 8. 06. 2024
- There's good. There's Great. There's game changers. But then there's one athlete from the 1990's who revolutionized his sport in a very unique way.
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And it will never be done again (that many world records) since they have removed indoor/outdoor records and only have one combined record... so if we are comparing with Duplantis he only has one event to set world records in and Bubka had two events
Also the height will eventually just be too high. Like if Duplantis gets to 6.28, whoever is after him would have to start from there, maybe they end at 6.32. Eventually you'll have someone WR at say 6.33 & to break 35 WRs they'd need to get over 6.68... Even split between Indoor & outdoor they'd need around 6.51 in each after 6.50 in each, after 6.49 in each, etc.
The biggest breakthroughs are generally always in earlier years as we get closer to "optimal". In theory nobody should ever break the LJ record by the percentage that Bob Beamon did, they'd have to somehow jump what like 9.40m before anyone else (including themselves) break 9.00m?
@@richardgallimore5976 Beamon's record, much like Flo Jo's was likely wind-aided (Beamon's jump had a "recorded" wind reading of (the maximum) 2.0 meters per second). Only events with incremental increases would ever be able to be raised in this way.
@@wayneegli8379 I wouldn't put those records as the same. Flo Jo's was likely a minimum of 4.0 wind, possibly as high as 7.0 or something ridiculous, the wind gauge said 0.0 so it clearly wasn't working. If a wind gauge says a number like 2.0 it seems to me like it was working, it was just ideal condition for Beamon's WR.
good point. when did they do that and why?
@@wayneegli8379 it wasn't the wind that helped the most, it was the fact that he jumped at a very high elevation above sea level. which helped immensely.
One thing that should be mentioned more often about pole vaulting, is that the poles have become dramatically better and easier to handle since the 1990s. The glass fiber poles they used back then, were heavy as heck and didn't return as much power to the athlete as today's carbon fiber poles. The old poles thus required much more upper body strength, which is why Sergey Bubka could have passed as a body builder, while Armand Duplantis looks more like a dancer. Duplantis is a great athlete, but I have to say it: 6.21 m with a high tech carbon fiber pole VS. 6.14 m with an old glass fiber pole, is like Usain Bolt's 100 m dash on 9.58 sec. VS. 10.00 with rubber wellies. Only one man in the whole world (Sergey Bubka) managed to get over 6 meters in the 1980s and 90s, while the rest struggled 10-20 cm below. Whereas now, many athletes reach 6 meters every year. Sergey Bubka is the greatest.
There's obvious undisputed truth to that.... *BUT* Mondo is 22 and iirc during the world championship it was casted that he could've jumper *6.3M+* in Oregon, so if Mondo keeps getting better and is injury free i could see him reach 6.4-6.5m plus Mondo just like Bubka is destroying the competition cause while yes there're now jumpers that get to 6m almost nobody can do it consistently (even Lavillenie, but then again he's 36, so you can reason with that). Hell, the only times he didn't win an event this year was having a fault in the qualifier of the European Championships and the Brussels Diamond League where he lost to Obiena, which is the first time Obiena beat Mondo since they started competing against each other
Training has also evolved and athletes like mondo are being trained at a very young age he has been vaulting since he was a child with a father who was an elite vaulter. Mondo also jumps on spirit poles the same as bubka athletes have just gotten better the same as every sport
Also, Bubka cleared some of those world records with a lot of air. I would guess at his peak he had the capacity to vault 6.25m, maybe even higher.
Thanks for replies. If I may, I agree with all of you. I didn't mean to dismiss Duplantis. He is great and as young as he is, he may even take over Bubka's position as the greatest ever. It is difficult to say what that would require. For me, I think heights beyond 6.40 m could do it. But, I don't really know, since it is impossible to compare fairly when the whole event has changed. My amateur assessment is: Bubka may not have vaulted above 6.40 m with a modern carbon fiber pole. Or, would he(?)... Moreover; Duplantis would almost certainly not have vaulted above 6.14 m with an old glass fiber pole. Maybe in a few years though...
Bubka was a great pole vaulter and a very smart guy, here is a little story about that. Immediatly after his last world record a pole vaulting rule was changed and the story goes Bubka had a hand in that change. The ends of the bar used to be square, that was changed to rounded ends. A bar with rounded ends is not as stable as a bar with square ends and will fall (roll) off the stand a lot easier, thus increasing the chance that his records will stand longer.
Probably the most amazing thing about Mondo is by just how much he's beating all the other competitors. Other's rarely even clear 6 meters, maybe a few athletes a year and I think the highest recent vault by anyone else is around 6.05 meters. At 6 meters in most meets he competed in it looked like Mondo was almost just "warming up". He's vaulting 6.06, 6.10, or in the case of his records much higher(6.21 currently) and 2nd place is down around 5.87 or 5.94. In some meets he's beating the competition by nearly 30cm(about 1 foot imperial) and is regularly beating them by 15-20cm. That is a full 3% - 5% better than 2nd place. Imagine a 400m runner beating everyone by over 2 seconds or a 100 meter runner dominantly beating all competitors by .3 - .5 seconds every race. His dominance is truly spectacular!
@@addemup Yes he did...and so did Bubka occasionally.
@@addemup he literally said it was a good thing he lost, cause it was a wake up call. He made a bad call and came in second, if it were any other athlete they would be thrilled coming in second place.
@@addemup it shows you how totally dominant he is that his one defeat was more notable than him setting a world record
Pole vaulting has so many factors involved (wind, poles, standards, different pits and boxes, danger, etc.) its impossible to be 100% consistent. Compare pole vaulting to running in a straight line as fast as possible (which of course still takes technique and strategy) but the variables are not even close.
In the back of my head I knew this was about Bubka from the start. I was a fan of his growing up, and even back then I knew this was a savvy move. It only sucks as he may have never reached his true potential. The man could have set a WR they’d still be chasing today.
Edit: one word
I think the same may happen with Duplantis. Sure he's gradually broken the WR up to as high as 6.21, but that 6.21 jump could have been 6.28, he was way over. It'd be sick of these two were competing in the same era & going all out, but oh well.
I've never seen slow motion footage of his vaults until now. And I can now see how athletic he was and how refined he was in his technique.
This form of incentive is good for dominant athletes, financially, but also probably prevents us from seeing the absolute best ability from them. Bubka maybe could have jumped higher earlier in his career, but by the time his methodical pace ($$) got there, he could no longer attain those heights. Maybe not. We will never know. Many speculate that Bolt could have run even faster on the same premise.
This could easily be fixed by multiplying the base bonus by how much improvement an athlete did from the previous record. Like instead of giving an incentive of 100k for every WR, it would be better to give a 100k for every centimeter an athlete could improve from the previous record. That way an athlete can aim for the best record they could get and get the money right away.
Yes, it would be a lot better, but probably who pay for single record prefer the advertisment for many years instead of a great unique record.
in regards to bolt he definately coulda ran faster as every one of his world records he was showboating over the line
@@arisart22 that would be best for the athlete financially and the hard core fans, but it wouldn't be best for the casual fans and the sponsors.
They'd rather see half a dozen new records than *one* epic new record.
It's far easier to generate a bunch of guaranteed small improvements with the pole vault, where you can automatically get the record to be recorded at exactly one centimeter higher than the previous world record. I guess you could do the same in the high jump (I'm surprised it hasn't happened yet), but it would be practically impossible in any other sport. Maybe you could do it bouncing between the bajillion swimming events, but even then it would be difficult.
(By the way, if Bolt set out to do it, he didn't completely succeed: he only held the 100m world record three times, and the 200m world record twice.)
Bubka is the only athlete to set that many world records?
Wouldn’t that mean he has 36 world records? (The world record for most world records broken.)
Wow 😮. Been on my mind recently. Whenever I hear, "Polt vault," his name comes to my mind.
I saw an interview with some guy who is well known in the pole vault community, don't remember his name. He said he won't be surprised if Mondo ends up clearing 6.40 someday. That is 19 more records, 38 if he does it indoors and outdoors. I have no idea if he will approach that. But I do think he has a lot more bonuses in his future.
I just noticed someone mentioned they only have one record for pole vault now, not indoor and outdoor. So I guess he won't be getting close to Bubka. Mondo may be called the GOAT someday but I don't think he will come close to 30 world records. I guess he could start going .5 centimeters at a time if that's a thing.
@@kragratt Well, I guess his records could get a star to indicate that he's under new rules. But Mondo is also backed by RedBull who also tend to shell out the 💰 (I used to work for them), and had an athletic sponsor already so there's money coming in regardless. Super happy for him.
Great video! As a former pole-vaulter myself I say great great video and thank you for all you do for the sport of Track and Field!
Mondo could easly push the world record to 6.30's. It is sometimes scary to witness how much clearence he's had over the bar. 6.35 would not be a crazy dream for him.
True, but Bubka had big clearances on his world records as well. Whatever Mondo achieves, I think Bubka would have been right there as well. I also think Lavillenie could have gone higher as well. I know a little about pole vaulting because I beat a future world record holder back in the late 1960s.
Love your programs. Absolutely great research!!
How about, way back in the 70s, when Vasily Alekseyev, the Soviet weightlifter, set 80 world-records and 81 Soviet records in weightlifting and won Olympic gold medals at the 1972 and 1976 games. The USSR paid him a hefty bonus every time he broke his own records so each time he broke them by the tiniest amount.
As far as i know this happens with all the world records in russia (ussr)
Thats because they pay their athletes very well so things like that ( reaking wr by one kilo) happens a lot
Also lasha talahaze (the current heavyweight wr holder) basically does the same
Yurik Vardanian was an absolute beast. He totaled 403kg while weighing 82kg which is insane and many thought it was impossible to reach. He was lifting enough to beat the totals of the next 2 weight classes.
@@philipmeisterl heck, break the record by 1 gram if they could!
I was looking for this comment. Glad to know there are a few other weightlifting fans out there.
Exactly! That’s what I was thinking as well. (We’re both old, I guess)
They should multiply the bonus relative to how much you improve the record.
With this small change we can see the absolute best of a dominant athlete when they are at the peak and not at the end of their careers.
money from tv and sponsors broke the track&field and other disciplines. Of course money allows athletes to focus on training only, but it's no longer about sport, it's about making money. Does it makes sense to pay a basketball player $20mln per season? if so, the 100k per pole vault world record is pocket change...
I mean - the sports is just another way for companies to make money so it does make sense.
What does not make sense is millions of people being willing to waste their money like that.
not broken.
The pole vault is the only event in track&field where this kind of planned progression is even possible because of all the different characteristics of the event....
1) the setting of the bar in advance to just one centimeter to clear.
2) the great height cleared (20+ feet) which makes a centimeter such a small percentage of improvement
3) this wouldn't even work for the high jump because of the lower height which makes a centimeter a much more significant improvement
4) there is no way for an athlete to regulate the planned improvement in throwing or running events because they don't have that physical bar to set in advance, therefore every one of their efforts must be all-out
Vasily Alekseyev was a Soviet Olympic weightlifter in the 60’s-early 80’s. The soviets paid him in the same manner, for each record broken. He routinely only broke records by .5 kilos, keeping him getting paid. He set 80 world records in the 70’s.
Its crazy how mondo jumped over 6.21 with more than 10cm to spare. Makes me wonder how high his final record will get.
I saw a guy that reviewed his big jumps over 6m and measured the low point he went over on all of them, ie what was the max height with no grazing the bar he could have made on each jump.
I hate that I can't find it now, but he said Mondo had done jumps that would have cleared either 6.32 or 6.33 already.
@@barath4545 czcams.com/video/hs4oFFOBb2o/video.html I believe it is this. Commentator talks about his clearance.
I heard a commentator say two years ago Duplantis cleared 6:28 in practice….
I was in Inglewood, California at the Los Angeles Time Indoor Meet on February 10, 1984 when Bubka broke the world record. As I recall, Billy Olson that night became the first pole vaulter to clear 19' or more in competition and still lose because of Bubka's world record that night.
Oh! BTW I've held the pole vault record at pretty big university as well as the decathlon record for over 40 years. ( without a coach).
I jumped against the great man in Tokyo 1991, he was way ahead of his time! Nice guy too.
Great stuff!
We all knew Sergei was milking this.....but we loved watching him anyway. Go Mondo!
This is actually fairly common by Soviet/Russian athletes. Prior to Bubka, Vasily Alekseyev the Soviet weight lifter, famously did this (one wonders what he could have really lifted had he made serious attempts). Bubka and Isinbayeva are probably outliers in the system, because pole vaulting lends itself to breaking records consistently, and minutely (1cm at a time) throughout a season, year after year.
The only other sports like this would be throwing events, the long jump/triple jump where micro distances are sometimes what determines a win, that and the dominate in these sports could if there is not really other competition go and beat the record by little gains of 1/4th a meter each time. I say let's not forget the High Jump that does the same as the pole vault beating the others by a small amount of a few cm at a time near the end.
@@caseysmith544 The thing with the Pole Vault and High Jump is that there's a bar that is the actual record. Anything over that doesn't matter. Where as the throwing sports, or something like the long jump/triple jump, it's measured to the actual distance traveled by the body or implement (the shot or discuss for instance). In the pole vault no one looks at the athlete's body and says they went 4 inches over the bar, so the record is now the bar height plus 4 inches. Weight lifting is very similar. It's the weight on the bar, not how much you could have exceeded that weight if you really tried.
Bubka was my hero back in high school 1994. Nobody could touch him then!
*from Sweden*... that kid grew up in Lafayette, Louisiana.
that form is CRAZY
Burbka also had pins made shorter to help retain Burkas record for which received money every time his record was not broken.
Amazing and awesome
There's effectively no way Mondo could match Bubka's record. Mondo has 5 WR so far, so he needs 30 more. But now they've removed the indoor vs outdoor distinction, which means he would have to jump at least 6.51m just to match Bubka, assuming he improves by 1 cm at a time. If we still had indoor vs outdoor distinctions, like they did back in Bubka and Isinbayeva's time, he'd only need to jump 6.36m.
Bubka wasn't the first athlete to do this type of thing... Vasili Aleksiyev broke 80 world records in weightlifting, breaking his own marks by tiny bits each time. It was said the Soviet gov't would pay him handsomely each time he did it. Of course, since it was the Soviet Union, it was hush-hush, so it's unknown just how much he made with all the record-breaking.
Lasha Talakhadze does the same thing in weightlifting.
pole vaulting in slow motion looks wild
It's good for dominant athletes, but we never see their full potential, which is sad.
Time for sponsors to change the system from "100k per record, to 100k per cm the record was beaten by" so the athletes can start showing their true potential
This way they can keep beating it by just one centimeter… you didn’t change it that much 😃
@@mathewmach6924 Or they could beat it by 7 centimeters and receive the $700K all at once. That's what the person above you is suggesting.
Kind of defeats the purpose of keeping Bubka motivated and still competing.
If he sets a record by 20 centimeters one time, the max of his abilities, is he going to feel motivated to chase a record he can't beat?
I agree with you, it would have been nice to see how high Bubka could have gone if he went for it in his prime instead of milking it until he was too old to go for it.
Less money and fewer fans could see a wr he sells tixs
@@johnedwards2051 - Is sport about money or performance?
Both are valid, but I want to see what can be achieved.
Sacrificing performance for money at that level makes me sad (nobody in that position is scraping by).
The 1st person to ever shatter a back board was.....Chuck Conners of Rifleman fame. Yes, he played pro basketball many many decades ago. He also played for the Cubs.
Goes to show how truly undervalued track athletes are largely because unfortunately athletics is still a niche sport especially in North America. Any track absolute GOAT makes a fraction of what any average NFL or NBA star makes.
Bonuses should be proportional to how much you break the record by, simple fix
Look up Zydrunas Zavickas. He did the same thing in strongman. He basically broke the overhead record 1 kg at a time, easily breaking it over and over again for exactly the same reason.
It's ridiculous that Bob Beamon's 2ft WR, or Uwe Hohn's 5m WR, would've been worth just as much as any of Bubka's untold number of 1cm improvements, if we operated under assumptions that they had the same contract. The obvious solution to this problem is that the size of a WR bonus should correspond to the percentage with which an athlete improves the WR. Make it $100k per 0.5% improvement, or whatever we deem appropriate.
If sponsors actually cared about this very obvious loophole they would change the requirements. But it brings more publicity to events if records keep being broken, so everyone wins.
Mondo is from Lafayette, La. His dad is Cajun/Finnish and a former pole vaulter. His mom is Swedish and a former athlete. One of his brothers, Antoine, set the all-time season hit total for LSU baseball in 2019.
And yet he chooses to compete for a foreign country.
@@ryandetert450 Yeah. I wonder what's up with that.
@@lowellmccormick6991 I believe he said that he felt that the Swedish athletics valued him more. They let his dad become coach on the national team, he went over there to pole vault during some summers growing up. Going to be a lot closer with the top officials when your country is not as competitive. He liked it’s homeliness and their care for him.
Also money was probably a factor, Sweden pays more, but athletes don’t like talking about that stuff. He was on red bull cans and billboards across the country after his Olympic win. That kind of stuff is valued a lot more in proportionally smaller countries.
@@ryandetert450 many athlete do that
He lives 15 minutes away from me in sweden and I occasionally see him in the arena training :)
Great piece. I gather the money was certainly GREAT incentive. I wonder if Edwin Moses benefitted from the same kind of encouragement. Now, I love that Sergey kept going to really establish his dominance as, and I saw this respectfully, you hear rumblings that Sydney M. is done w/ the 400mH and is ready to move on simply because she broke the record twice, and maybe 2 yrs of *dominance*. This was dominance. Edwin Moses was dominance. Mondo is on his way to dominance -- despite a recent 2nd place. Sydney is showing up for the big races then shuts down. But I guess that's enough for history today. Oh well.
Maybe the event is taking a physical toll on her? Maybe she’s decided she wants to see what she can do in an open 400? Maybe you see it as quitting but I see it as her doing what she wants for whatever reason, and if she wants a new challenge and has the potential to kick the asses of the best to ever do it in the process I say more power to her.
@@dominantdaddy6939 I don't disagree, but this is the common conversation that's being had. I know it's in part her coach pulling the strings (as she shared) as to where she runs and doesn't. But the great ones don't compete at home most of the time, and show their dominance. She's had the benefit of home field for her records/top times (Eugene).
@@henrihelvetica5835 Let me get this right…you’re stating that her being able to run an event or two per year at a track she is familiar with is overwhelmingly contributing to her overall dominance? How does that excuse fly on the rest of the tracks the world over because from my vantage point she kicks ass all over the globe?
@@dominantdaddy6939 I’d love to agree. Just go look at the data. Top 4 times: 3/4 at Eugene. 7/10 on US soil. She did one more race after worlds and shut it down. Others did Commonwealth, the Euros then Diamond League. I simply would love to see her compete more. Even Dalilah was out there. But all good. She can sit with her crown.
It was Nike that was even smarter then Sergei. Each time a world record is broken it brings attention/publicity (especially back in those days when most people watched TV, instead of internet/streaming options, etc.). If Sergei did go for broke with his best effort in getting the record, then Nike would lose all the other publicity at later events. Nike is great at promoting their brand (and they can afford to overpay their sponsored athletes, since their products are made by underpaid children in third world countries). A few years ago I remember when Nike had the "If you let Her Play Sports Campaign" Ads, the commercial made it seem like girls aren't allowed to play sports (what a bunch of rubbish, I grew up in the 1970s/early 80s, girls were playing all sports/getting college scholarships) and Nike were citing some nonsense statistics how it 'helps' females, it was all about selling more Nike products thus increasing profits. If Nike cared about people and in particular females, they would have campaigns targeting at improving the quality of life for people in third world countries where their products are made.
Darryl Dawkins changed how basketball hoops were designed due to his backboard shattering antics, not familiar with shaqs changes to the rules
Glad someone else noticed that mistake. Dawkins would literally slam the ball through the hoop so hard his hands would grab onto the rim with that same force, thus the glass shattering. Shaq stuffed it through the hoop but usually just grabbed the rim if there was any danger of falling onto another player below him (legal by NBA rules).
The javelin was not changed because of safety reasons for the crowd. That's mis info that has been running around shortly after they decided to do it. Somehow it is still with us.
Brilliant tactic
Does anyone know the name of the track used at the end? Shazam can't find it
Bob Beamon jump is so incredible cause he landed on his feet and hopped forward.
What about Tuariki Delamere and his front flip long jump?
What song is in the background of the intro?
Really makes you wonder how high he could have vaulted if he really went for his max during his peak
Wilt chamberlain forced the nba to change multiple rules while he was still in college. They were afraid of him dominating the league and ruining fan viewership
There are photos on his torso a foot above the bar on a recent world record jump. He's going to break the record a whole lot of time, 1 cm at a time.
This was like a 2 minute factoid stretched into 8 minutes ngl
This will also probably never be done again because Nike and other organizations likely learned from this and now have some stipulations I would think or maybe not but either way still a very good businessman and athlete for sure
Bubka also got decent "appearance fees" just for showing up at meets even without records. Now we got Mondo !
I wonder how much longer you can make a pole before it becomes difficult to vault with
The Pole could be higher now if they went to an expensive all carbon fiber pole as they could make it stiffer then the old fiberglass pole in the bottom even if both are solid bottom inside the pole of carbon fiber could have a fully ridged bottom few feet to help with the issue of not being able to be taller then __ feet/meters to have better single direction flex and fully stiff left or right to help propel the person forward better. I bet the company that makes most of the carbon fiber plates for racing shoes could do this in such a way the top people have to make rules about how much of a % the pole is not allowed to bend and to force the makers of the poles to have __ minimum side to side movement in the flex parts.
Mondo will make way more money than Bubka and his record when he retires will stand for a long long time. He is a incredible vaulter and is most certainly the greatest of all time !!
Even this guy doesn’t hold a candle to the Soviet Weightlifter Vasily Alekseyev who broke 80 world records by going up just .5 lbs in order to secure a bonus from the government every time. And he did this for 7 straight years 1970-1977.
I know it is just CZcams but seems odd he didn't even do a search to see who has the most world records before claiming Bubka did. Even more ironic as you mentioned Vasily was employing the exact same strategy to break the records minimally so he could make more money.
Not great when you make videos presenting a large number of facts and you get a major one wrong that literally would have been prevented with a 3 second search on the internet.
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Do a video about Rojas 🥺
One thing that should be mentioned is that it's easy to manipulate the world record by adding a centimeter to each height because the clearance is binary: either you clear or you don't.
If they had such a thing as a laser high jump or a laser pole vault where every centimeter counts then it's harder to manipulate. Sort of like it's hard to manipulate the long jump to just barely beat your world record by one centimeter.
How would one build a laser high jump or pole vault measuring device? You put low resolution censors every centimeter in height, and whatever the highest consecutive (from 0.00) sensor that wasn't tripped is the height that gets registered.
TRP tell us who was actually first😂
nice can you do more finance videos?
Mondo is doing the same thing. He knows bupka he told him the trick also hes doing the same thing 1 cm at a time
I'm a be real with you bro I am so sick and tired of these click bait titles
nike paid tiger woods 40 mil in the 90's to show up in japan for a weekend
Duplantis is the king of phenomenoms
Bubka was amazing! I just never understood how he always sucked at the olympics. Although he won the WC 6 times, he was only an olympic champion once in his career.
These incentives do an injustice to the athlete and the world of sports. I wonder just how high Bubka could have gone if he hadn't limited himself.
Perhaps Nike should have incentivized the height. "We'll pay you more based on how much higher above the previous record broken." So, if he broke the previous record by 1cm, he gets 10k, but if he breaks the previous record by 10cm, he gets 100k (or, maybe 200k, because they make a graduated payout.)
Bubka was amazing to watch. He will always be my number 1 athlete because of this.
this technique was developed by USSR Olympic weight lifters (Alekseyev.....80 world records).....who were similarly rewarded by their Gov......also Darryl Dawkins had a lot to do with the backboard and rim changes in the NBA .....he shattered backboards at will......ref: Chocolate Thunder
Surely Dick Fosbury should have been in that opening list
It's pretty widely accepted sergei could jump 6.2+ in his prime. That 97 world championship jump over 6.01 is regarded as his greatest jump and estimated to have been able to clear 6.22.
Mondo's dad is a world class vaulter and coach. Mondo has been vaulting since he was 4 years old. He is a world class gymnast. Most kids only get a short lesson in their freshman year of highschool from an ignorant football coach who knows nothing about the pole vault. Not to take away from his accomplishments but how many kids get that kind of pole vault training from such an early age? The list is small isn't it? What about the "steel" box in concrete that has maimed and killed countless kids? Why do we need a steel plant box that is lethal? Anyone??
Puma pays Mondo Duplantis 250.000 Euro for every World Record he breaks and that just some of the bonuses 😬
Ahh the fortune to be king of a sport that no one plays.
FWIW? Duplantis is also a Cajun.
Bought time he gets a video!
Duplantis is American. He competes for the swedes bc of his mom
Breaking a running personal best by 1 second is commonly known as a Bubka PB or 'doing a Bubka' in the UK.
Wasn't there a weightlifter that did the same thing? Breaking the record by only a small amount over and over.
WOW
its only happening in pole vaulting. dont know if its possible in any other discipline
I think you can do something similar in high jump.
@@khumokwezimashapa2245 yep was gonna edit my comment. however no one has sniffed high jump records since the 80s/90s
@@moa3821 Ye. Maybe back then they could've done what Bubka did, but now it's pretty much impossible
Well it's way harder to be tactical like that in events other than high jump or pole vault, since there wouldn't be a specific way to improve by 0,01 over and over again
@@svf99escfan When Bolt was breaking WRs he'd ease at the line in some of them, so may've been similar tactics as probably received large WR bonuses too. Of course his sponsorship deals couldve dwarfed those though. This is technically possible & "easier" to time in longer running events too, though you only get so many perfect days in marathon running for ex, and for Kipchoge smashing the WR to as low as possible to cement his place in history from interviews seems really important.
Almost cute how LITTLE he earned, specially when compared to todays athlets. For football (actual football - not the US handegg) the 2nd liga is in general still receiving a minimum of ~5k$ a month, with boni etc bringing that to more like >120k/year. The "stars" of 2nd league still get millions a year, let alone the world class athlets.
If they can make that much money: good for them.
But the morons that are willing to pay thousands of $ just to see others get rich - well their choice to waste their money like that.
Maybe if O'Neil hadn't hung on the basketball goal like he did, they wouldn't have had to put in a no-shatter rule. C'mon, that was just ignorant crap he was pulling back then.
This is chump change for any major sport.
Nice video, but the click bait was too much
Ok that motivates one to go one Centimeter at a time
Daddy needs to get paid
duplantis may not beat the 30+ records because the indoor and outdoor records are combined for the event now
wow
Strange sport.
W8W ^^ Very Nice :D
Wasn't cost of living extremely low in comparison to today? It would be more $100,000 would probably feel like $400,000 rather than $200,000
1:48 "Sergey Bubka"
what is so much worse?
Infinite money glitch
Javier sotomayor and said aouita were the other sure shots of the 80 and early 90