Sweden’s world pole vault record holder Armand Duplantis can barely wait to make his “childhood dream” come true of competing in his first Olympics this summer in Tokyo, he told AFP.
Duplantis will have enormous pressure on his 21-year-old shoulders in Japan, but he said he was learning to live with the expectations that exploded with his record-breaking exploits last year.
“I think I’m starting to get used to the pressure now. People have been putting pressure on me in the past year, ever since I broke the world record,” said Duplantis, who divides his time between Sweden and Louisiana in the United States.
“At every competition I go to everybody expects me to win, everybod…
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