Pole vault

And then I ran cross country and track in high school and middle school.

And I actually got into pole vaulting, which was actually my primary sport.

And then obviously once I graduated college and was in medical school, I couldn't do that.

That's not like a sport.

So I, um, I loved, you know, running, obviously, even in middle school and high school, even though it wasn't as long of distances.

But I had a coach that was like, hey, you look like a pole vaulter, whatever that means.

And I started pole vaulting because, you know.

When you're a high schooler and your frontal lobe isn't fully developed, you have no fear.

in four [laughs] and two years, and which are we cutting? And I think high jump remains.

High jump and pole vault are just always roulette when it comes, uh, to track.

Yeah.

You either make it or you don't.

Was high jump there?

I don't think so.

High, well if, like high jump and pole vault should be on there, where you could pick the winners, but I think like live betting if they're gonna clear it, if they don't.

Mm.

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I think my pole vaulting days-

How do you-

... are over

Yeah, it was great.

Okay.

But you've decided you're n- there'll be no more pole vaulting?

There'll be no...

Like that was the best race of my life.

And then I started pole vaulting.

So this same year, so I'm 17.

So running parallel to

Yes.

Yeah.

So you start pole vaulting.

Yeah.

I'm like, okay.

And then he's like, but since you were a gymnast, you have to pole vault for us.

I can learn pole vault.

I can do that.

So I learned how to pole vault and I learned how to high jump.

And so I switched sports in college.

And then the next year, well, that first year I went up to him and I, I just told him, I'm like, Hey, I don't, I don't want to just do this for fun.

So it was fun.

What else did we have at the Diamond Leagues? We had...

I noticed something, actually.

It was Corrales, the pole vaulter.

He cleared 6.20 for the first time.

I think he's the second person to actually ever clear 6.20. And I was thinking, this is great because Duplantis might actually have some legitimate competition now.

If Duplantis isn't within 2% of his best, he doesn't win.

which has never been the case, right, over the last four or five years.

So there's suddenly more reason to watch pole vaulting because it's slightly less predictable than it was.

I wouldn't be surprised if Toby gets close to her 12-12 once again, right? Anything can happen in these hurdles.

Maasai just happened to be absolutely perfect today and really execute on all cylinders, have great conditions, have the momentum of Dos Santos, have the momentum of Corrales jumping 6-20, almost winning the pole vault.

Obviously, Duplantis jumped 6-25, having the momentum of Julian, who we'll talk about in a second.

All of that played into a race like this.

I'm going to come back to this Dambile conversation with everybody.

But big shout out to the men's long jump with Tentaglou and Wayne Pinnock and Tajay Gale.

uh holiden was in it for a moment i know he jumped this 832 on yeah in round four which shot him up a little bit but you know this was a good competition even though it wasn't like super super high quality um yes big shout out to the men's pole vault this was actually crazy there was a moment i was like yo is you know corral is gonna win but corrales with 620 like on his first attempt all clear all clear all the way up through 620 this was a big shock big big shock obviously he had jumped 617 he also jumped 616 um the other day in lausanne or whatever it was um this was a big shock but then mondo he gets out to 625 and it was over like it was that that was it there was a moment though i was like yo If Corrales actually beats Mondo, this to me would have been the first legitimate, quote unquote, all due respect to all the other athletes, but like legitimate loss for Mondo in the sense that no one has beaten Mondo by jumping six meters since 2019.

That was the last time Mondo lost a competition ever.

Uh, I'm trying to think.

Um, pole vault was the best next thing.

Men's pole vault.

Where's that? Oh, yes.

Dude, I was pissed this was, like, the day before, 'cause I, I don't even...