Monday, 8 February 2021
The poker players of men’s pole vault, where the stakes are already sky high this year, are set to play it again in the northern French city of Liévin tomorrow in the third of this season’s World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meetings.
Five 6.00 metres-plus vaulters will gather at the Arena Stade Couvert, including the two men who have been seeing and raising each other’s efforts in the space of the last few weeks - France’s very own Renaud Lavillenie and Mondo Duplantis, the 21-year-old who succeeded him as world record holder last year.