Anamarie G. Garbo of Philippines performs a pole dance during the International Pole Championships in Tokyo, Thursday, Dec. 9, 2010. Zoraya Judd says there is nothing she would rather do than pole ...

PARIS, France — Arguably, the greatest pole vaulter ever, Mondo Duplantis, won gold and set multiple records on Monday. The Lafayette native had already clinched the gold medal, but he continued to ...

There are families, there are athletic families, then there is the Duplantis family, which may rank as one of one. Greg Duplantis and his wife Helena were track standouts at LSU. Greg, from Lafayette, ...

American-born Swede Armand Duplantis produced the highest-ever outdoor pole vault jump on Thursday when he cleared 6.15 metres to win gold at the Rome Diamond League meeting and continue his ...

ZURICH — The greatest pole vaulter is set to race the fastest ever 400-meter hurdler. In the 100-meter sprint. Armand “Mondo” Duplantis, who broke his own world record in the pole vault at the Paris ...

You don’t get to choose your own nickname, but you do get to prove why you were given it. Armand Duplantis was nicknamed ‘Mondo’ — ‘world’ in Italian — at a young age by a family friend. It is easy to ...

TOKYO -- Mondo Duplantis stood confidently at the top of his mark, a steely look of determination buried deep in his eyes ahead of what inevitably felt like his latest jaw-dropping athletic feat. The ...