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re: Mondo Duplantis, brother of Antoine
Posted on 5/25/17 at 4:42 pm to GeismarGeauxer
Posted on 5/25/17 at 4:42 pm to GeismarGeauxer
If he was good enough to compete in Olympics for USA he would. Not meant as a jab, kid is young.
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Posted on 5/25/17 at 4:49 pm to tigerskin
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If he was good enough to compete in Olympics for USA he would. Not meant as a jab, kid is young.
Scandinavian countries care far more about field sports than the US. It's not even close. The best throwers and jumpers are able to actually make a living there.
Posted on 5/25/17 at 5:12 pm to tigerskin
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If he was good enough to compete in Olympics for USA he would. Not meant as a jab, kid is young.
Except he's the best teenage pole vaulter on the planet...
Have you see the women in Sweden? Mondo knows what he's doing.
Posted on 5/25/17 at 5:30 pm to tigerskin
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If he was good enough to compete in Olympics for USA he would. Not meant as a jab, kid is young.
He holds a World Junior record. His best is 5.5inches below the US all-time record at the age of 17. That vault is also the 199th best vault EVER. If you take out repeat performances there have only been 36 people to ever jump higher. In the last 11 years there has literally been 2 better jumps than him by an American. The kid is a stud and would certainly be a US Olympian if he even just maintained where he's at now.
Posted on 5/25/17 at 9:28 pm to tigerskin
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If he was good enough to compete in Olympics for USA he would.
Same goes for alot of other sports, especially baseball and softball. Just last year LSU had two softball players play for Puerto Rico in the World Championships. Many use the loop hole to make rosters when they can't make them in the USA.
Posted on 5/26/17 at 6:14 am to tigerskin
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If he was good enough to compete in Olympics for USA he would.
This is wrong. The club system in Europe is why he's competing for them. He can make much more money competing for Sweden than he ever would competing for the US. The US system is largely based on universities, while European athletes grow up in club systems and have the ability to make money.
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