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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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John Brewin

World Athletics Championships: Kenya’s Chebet wins women’s 10,000m gold, big names impress in 100m heats – as it happened

Beatrice Chebet crosses the line to win gold after a ferocious kick in the final lap of the women’s 10,000m
Beatrice Chebet crosses the line to win gold after a ferocious kick in the final lap of the women’s 10,000m. Photograph: Petr David Josek/AP

Sean Ingle's night one report

After his facile pole vault qualification, Armand Duplantis spoke to the BBC, and he’s aiming high: “It’s not so fun, honestly, but it’s something you just got to get used to. It’s a waiting game. You have to just be patient, and you have to trust in yourself and be confident, you’re jumping. be ready to wait about an hour, hour and a half in between the jumps and whatnot.

Yeah, really good, actually. I felt really calm and just like, I didn’t really have to push it too hard. I was just like relaxing and it felt really nice, good. Yeah, like, where I wanted to be to try to give it a a really good go at a, you know, maybe something really hard, like a 6.30 for the final.”

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