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With Armand Duplantis, the question is never whether he’ll win but how high he’ll fly. The 24-year-old Swede had broken the pole vault world record eight times, pushing the limits of possibility centimetre by centimetre. And here on a sultry night at the Stade de France, at 10.15pm, with the track races long finished and nobody moving an inch from their seat, he did it again.
