It's Sunday evening, and what am I doing? Watching pole vault. A seriously specific event, yes, and one that could often be avoided as a spectacle, especially for a routine meeting of the Diamond League, but with Mondo Duplantis in action, it offers a rare opportunity to watch the best athlete ever in their sport compete today.
Yes, I know he is going to win. I also know he is probably going to break the world record again. I'll save you the wait – he did, for a 12th time – but yet, mine and everyone in the Stockholm Olympic Stadium's eyes were glued on him successfully clearing 6.28m, 38cm higher than second-place.
