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Article about Mondo Duplantis in NYT
Posted on 8/2/21 at 6:12 pm
Posted on 8/2/21 at 6:12 pm
Saw this article on Mondo regarding his performing for Sweden in the Olympics. I did not know his mother is Swedish and he has dual citizenship. Informative, if somewhat long article.
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Posted on 8/2/21 at 6:13 pm to The LGBM
Woah. Are you serious?
Posted on 8/2/21 at 6:16 pm to The LGBM
Did you also not know that Kim Mulkey is Kramer Robertson's mom or that Herman Johnson was the biggest baby born in Louisiana?
Posted on 8/2/21 at 6:18 pm to 3rdRowTailgater
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Did you also not know that Kim Mulkey is Kramer Robertson's mom or that Herman Johnson was the biggest baby born in Louisiana?
Posted on 8/2/21 at 6:19 pm to The LGBM
Dude - where have you been?
Posted on 8/2/21 at 6:20 pm to 3rdRowTailgater
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Did you also not know that Kim Mulkey is Kramer Robertson's mom or that Herman Johnson was the biggest baby born in Louisiana?
The reason I stated about his mother is because I never understood how he was was on the Swedish team.
He is a world class athlete from Louisiana and part of the LSU family. If you don't care to read the article, cool.
Posted on 8/2/21 at 7:11 pm to The LGBM
Right, but everyone has known for a while that he competed for the Swedes because he has dual citizenship due to his mom being from there.
Posted on 8/2/21 at 7:15 pm to 3rdRowTailgater
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Did you also not know that Kim Mulkey is Kramer Robertson's mom or that Herman Johnson was the biggest baby born in Louisiana?
I’m amazed how fast this gets posted, every time
Posted on 8/2/21 at 7:30 pm to The LGBM
I get the whole dual citizenship thing but come on! Born and raised in the USA and representing another country! That I just don’t get but whatever! And I’ve known that for a long time, still don’t get it!
This post was edited on 8/2/21 at 7:31 pm
Posted on 8/2/21 at 7:50 pm to Nissanmaxima
We landed on the moon
Posted on 8/2/21 at 7:50 pm to The LGBM
I’m gonna need pics of the girlfriend.
Posted on 8/2/21 at 7:59 pm to The LGBM
Thanks for the link. That is a damned interesting article. Some highlights:
Are poles that expensive? I chuckled when I saw that taking care of his poles was part of the offer.
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A pole-vaulting prodigy from Lafayette, La., Duplantis was a couple of months from his first international competition, the 2015 world youth championships, when he received a recruiting call from a coach. The twist was that the coach was from the Swedish Athletics Association. “He would call me and my parents every day going, ‘You should compete for Sweden, we’re super well-organized, we’re going to take care of your poles, we’re going to do everything for you,’ ” Duplantis recently recalled. “It sounded like a pretty good offer.”
Duplantis has since emerged as one of Sweden’s most beloved athletes, endearing himself to a once-skeptical public by speaking Swedish in interviews, driving Swedish cars, buying a place to live in Sweden during the summer and dating a Swedish model, Desiré Inglander. The two made headlines when they kissed on live TV in early July at a track meet in Stockholm. (Duplantis won.)
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It is Duplantis’s personality, as well as his jumping skill, that has made him popular in Sweden, Karlsson said. In a newspaper poll of 1,500 Swedes last year, he won in a landslide as the country’s most popular athlete, defeating the soccer star Zlatan Ibrahimovic and the three-time Olympic champion cross-country skier Charlotte Kalla.
Are poles that expensive? I chuckled when I saw that taking care of his poles was part of the offer.
Posted on 8/2/21 at 8:02 pm to Nissanmaxima
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I get the whole dual citizenship thing but come on! Born and raised in the USA and representing another country! That I just don’t get but whatever! And I’ve known that for a long time, still don’t get it!
So the “Italian” 100 M champ was born in Texas. What’s your point? It is about the trials - period. That abs T&F is so much more popular in Europe. In Sweden, he is worshiped.
Kobe nearly played for Italy once. Again, what’s your point?
This post was edited on 8/2/21 at 8:13 pm
Posted on 8/2/21 at 8:43 pm to 3rdRowTailgater
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Did you also not know that Kim Mulkey is Kramer Robertson's mom or that Herman Johnson was the biggest baby born in Louisiana?
Did you know that Kieland Williams’ calves were elite?
Posted on 8/2/21 at 10:27 pm to The LGBM
I also heard that Herman Johnson was the biggest baby born in Louisiana. 
Posted on 8/2/21 at 10:32 pm to Tiger1988
Eh the point is obvious but you seem to be obtuse about it.
Posted on 8/2/21 at 10:33 pm to The LGBM
Yea and if he were an African American running for another country he’d be crucified on this board.
Posted on 8/2/21 at 10:35 pm to Tiger1988
He was not raised in Texas and moved to Italy when he has 3 weeks old. His father moved to South Korea and mother returned to her hometown Italy. Nice edit
This post was edited on 8/2/21 at 10:40 pm
Posted on 8/2/21 at 11:11 pm to Nissanmaxima
Representing Sweden, he was able to compete in many European/International meets last 2 years. Track meets much more numerous in Europe than in U. S.
Posted on 8/2/21 at 11:14 pm to Slippy
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I’m gonna need pics of the girlfriend.
Desire Inglander
This post was edited on 8/2/21 at 11:17 pm
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