On a Stockholm night, cool even in the summer, the Brazilian Allyson dos Santos signs 46.80 in the 400m hurdles, a record that would have made him world champion and Olympic champion almost always, and Armand Duplantis watches him go by while turning on a massage device and It is massaged in the adductor and gluteus.
Then he talks with Renaud Lavillenie, his rival from other times -today he is still a rival, although on nights like this he acts as advisor-, and he stands in the corridor of the pole and launches his first attack on the world record, the 6.16 m who has asked the judges.
Duplantis, the wonder of current athletics, tries his luck, it doesn't work out the first time: he rises little and poorly and returns to the bench and concentrates again, because he wants to reward his people, the Swedes who adore him so much.
And then he returns to the charge.
And now yes, now Duplantis is lost in the Stockholm sky, it rises up to 6.16 m, the equivalent of three floors of a conventional building, one centimeter above the 6.15 m that it had registered in September 2021 , and the world celebrates another record of the Swedish talent, the second that he signs outdoors.
(on the indoor track add four more, one for each centimeter that goes from 6.17 to 6.20)
And so he is definitively outlined as the new Bubka: in his day, the Ukrainian had chained 35 universal records, from 5.81 to 6.15 m.
