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Thomas Campos
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Sport can and should also be a spectacle. And that is exactly what they have come up with. Puma, Red Bull and Weltklasse Zürichin a close and fruitful collaboration that has led to a fantastic duel in the 100 meters between Karsten Warholm, world record holder in the 400m hurdles, and Armand Duplantis, undisputed king of the pole vault.
The two stars of athletics will face each other in the legendary Letzigrund Stadium in Zurich on the day before the Diamond League meetinglast stop before the finals in Brussels (13-14 September).
Warholm, three-time world champion and Olympic gold medalist in Tokyo, He had to settle for silver in Paris, beaten by Rai Benjamin. ‘Mondo’, for its part, achieved its Second Olympic gold in the French capital with a new world record -the ninth of his prodigious career- of 6.25 meters.
Norwegian and Swedish They already challenged each other last summer in a video shared by both on social networks but until now it had not been more than a dream.
Warholm has a best mark in the 100 metres of 10.49 seconds in 2017, while Duplantis clocked an interesting 10.57 seconds when I was a senior in high school just a year later. This makes it quite difficult to predict who will win although the most important thing in this case is that fun will be guaranteed.
