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  On 7/10/2021 at 6:45 PM, Makedonas said:

Another silver for Karalis. Was hoping he'd be able to upgrade his silver from 2019 to a gold this year but I guess it's still a decent result for him. He's been pretty disappointing the past few years. He's made zero progress while his peer Duplantis has done the exact opposite.

 

I don't want to be too harsh on Karalis because he had some serious injuries, but I question his focus and commitment. He seems like he cares more to be a famous/social media influencer.

 

He's still only 21 but the fact that his PB of 5.80(i) was from February 2018 is quite concerning. Back then he was 18 and seemed like he would surely improve a little more over the next couple years and become a medal contender for Tokyo. Clearly that isn't the case.

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I think he should be very happy with silver. Guttormsen looked stronger today and Duplantis + Baehre didn’t even compete, otherwise he would have won no medal.

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  On 7/10/2021 at 7:04 PM, OlympicsFan said:

I think he should be very happy with silver. Guttormsen looked stronger today and Duplantis + Baehre didn’t even compete, otherwise he would have won no medal.

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I agree. I meant that I was hoping he'd be able to win gold from when he won silver in 2019. After following his results since then, it became clear that any type of medal would be a success for him here.

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Very rare - in fact the first ever in this competition - bronze medal for :AND Carabaña in the men’s steeplechase.

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  On 7/11/2021 at 12:58 PM, maestro said:

French decathlete Thiery jumped a superb 5.60m in decathlon pole vault. Nobody else jumped more than 4.90m.

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Why does he even do decathlon?? ?? This is 10cm below Olympic standard ...

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  On 7/11/2021 at 2:17 PM, Jan Linha said:

Why does he even do decathlon?? ?? This is 10cm below Olympic standard ...

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He is 20 years old, maybe he will focus on pole vault in 1-2 years.  There have been examples of athletes starting from combined events and then specialising in one specific event. He will need to improve in throwing events if he wants to continue with decathlon.

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We have a policy of trying combined events from the younger age and then let the athlete choose what he likes the most.

 

Besides that we have a great pole vault history.

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  On 7/11/2021 at 2:17 PM, Jan Linha said:

Why does he even do decathlon?? ?? This is 10cm below Olympic standard ...

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He still could take a medal here 

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  On 7/11/2021 at 2:17 PM, Jan Linha said:

Why does he even do decathlon?? ?? This is 10cm below Olympic standard ...

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Are you sure? I thought the standard was 5.80 m.

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