The Bauhaus concert in Stockholm will be the last big test for the World Cup-preparing Swedes ahead of the World Cup in Eugene.
Mondo Duplantis guarantees a great presentation – no matter the weather.
But the hottest still discus.
It’s a purely World Cup final that fans will watch in the Stockholm stadium.
I’m happy for discus throwers, that Daniel Stoll To meet the best in front of her local audience.
These are not spoiled racing stars who avoid meeting each other before the tournament.
There is the world playmaker Daniel Stahl, the second Christian Sieh from Slovenia and the third Andrius Judzius from Lithuania.
In addition to the world’s greatest discus throwing talent, nineteen-year-old Mikulas Alkana who threw 69 meters this year is ranked fifth in the world’s best games of the year.
Only four of Lukas Weisschedinger of Austria are missing and it wasn’t because he didn’t want to come, but because he couldn’t.
I like it when these undefeated sports giants are in the center for once.
Just remember 2019, when the IAAF decided to exclude discus throwing from the Diamond League in the 2020 season.
Corona almost seemed to come as a punishment for that decision, as the pandemic shattered the entire season.
Exploded completely
At the same time, the next blow came from giant Nike, which withdrew almost all sponsorship of discus throwers and lead putters, some of whom were previously on their own in supporting shoe manufacturers.
But at the same time, Daniel Stahl and the others showed that they deserved to be on the biggest stages, and in 2021 they returned to the Diamond League program again.
Daniel, as one of the few, got his shoelaces back.
Today I will rank discus as one of the strongest branches of athletics in general.
It has completely exploded.
Ståhl and Kristijan Ceh each threw just over 70 metres, two just over 69 metres.
Then we have Mykolos Alekna’s Duplantis, who scored the 69-meter streak in his freshman year as a freshman.
he is strong.
After taking gold at the World Cup in Doha and Olympic gold in Tokyo last summer, Daniel Stahl is the one to be hunted nowadays, but I have more sense of enjoyment than fear of the situation.
It gives a sense of security because you’ve already got the two heaviest athletics medals around the neck.
Daniel turns 30 in August and has built himself up to be a world leader for more than a decade at coach Vestin Hufsteinson’s school.
He’s in a position where he can’t get much better.
According to Feistin, he is complete and now it is about making use of what he already has and trying to stay on the throne during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
And, perhaps, you might even reach that world record held by old East German thrower Jürgen Schulte since 1986.
Everyone knows why after all it came out of the archives after the fall of East Germany, but it’s still like damned left there.
I actually feel a little bit in my heart that Ricky Brosh hasn’t experienced this.
Few evenings were more classic in Stockholm than on July 5, the summer of 1972, when Ricky threw the 68.40 disc and touched the world record of American Jay Sylvester.
He’d love to see the disc gang 50 years later.
Fears of the curse of the weather
Yes, we have that with the weather.
Expectations have changed over the course of the week and I fear the Mondo Duplante curse will affect the Stockholm stadium.
He’s had to live with lousy weather from pole vaulting all this season.
When I looked at the SMHI forecast last Monday, a heavy rain cloud also hung in the stadium Thursday night, the competitions will be decided, but on Tuesday the sun looked ahead and it would be 25 degrees.
But on Wednesday, that cloud is back again, even if at worst it will only release light rain.
So who knows?
But if there’s anyone I treat with good competition weather, it’s Mondo.
He has the ability to jump six meters and above even in the worst conditions.
But everyone in the industry knows they can do so much more.
