Mondo Duplantis Again

It's the beginning of a new outdoor season, and he is going to take it up a little bit at a time, to break the record over and over. He gets paid by the sponsors every time he breaks it, so why not? Sergey Bubka broke it a centimeter at a time once or twice a year for a decade. 

 

The only downside I can see if if he gets injured badly enough to shave off the very top of his career, he will always have to wonder how far he could have gone if, if, if... But that's what athletes live with anyway.  No that I think of it, that's what all of us live with anyway.

The conversion is 20' 7 1/4". For comparison, the record in 1950 was 15'7"; in 1975 it was 18'6"; in 2000 it was 20' 1 1/2".