More than 2025: The making of Mondo Duplantis

Armand 'Mondo' Duplantis is the biggest star in athletics. At the 2025 World Athletics Championships, he produced one of the year's greatest moments of sporting theatre as he broke the world record for the 14th time in his career. But how did he come to dominate the event to such an extent?

In the latest instalment of our look back at 2025, Ed Harry and Ade Adedoyin discuss Duplantis's astonishing rise, and revisit an interview they conducted with Mondo and his father, Greg, back in 2019. It's a candid insight into the making of one of the biggest personalities, and most extraordinary talents, in world sport.

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