{"id":118165,"date":"2026-08-20T21:03:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T21:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/118165\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T21:03:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T21:03:14","slug":"mondo-duplantis-shines-in-lausanne-amidst-high-flying-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/118165\/","title":{"rendered":"Mondo Duplantis Shines in Lausanne Amidst High Flying Drama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mondo Duplantis electrified the crowd at the Lausanne Diamond League with a stunning pole vault performance, reaching 6.21 meters to secure victory while narrowly missing two world-record attempts.<\/p>\n<p>This thrilling achievement followed challenges, including his first defeat in three years at Stockholm and a groin injury in London. Duplantis, however, signaled his return to peak form by surpassing 6.16 meters on his initial attempt, with Emmanouil Karalis securing second place after three jumps.<\/p>\n<p>Despite not setting a new world record, Duplantis embraced his friend&#8217;s efforts with sportsmanship while delighting fans lining both the runway and pit. The vibrant atmosphere of Lausanne&#8217;s Ouchy district made it a memorable spectacle, as Duplantis expressed enthusiasm for his next challenge in Budapest.<\/p>\n<p>(With inputs from agencies.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mondo Duplantis electrified the crowd at the Lausanne Diamond League with a stunning pole vault performance, reaching 6.21&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[9],"tags":[57433,57434,2117,94,10667,6214,57435,57370,19537,41899],"class_list":["post-118165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lausanne","tag-emmanouil-karalis","tag-kurtis-marschall","tag-lake-geneva","tag-lausanne","tag-lausanne-diamond-league","tag-mondo-duplantis","tag-ouchy-district","tag-pole-vault","tag-world-athletics","tag-world-record"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/117129865008049106","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}