Thomas Byrne talks to Mondo Duplantis for the IAAF Diamond League about growing up with a pole vault runway in his backyard, his childhood hero Renaud Lavillenie and his ambitions for the future.
@@Itstime1231 It has been mentioned before that the USA do not support there athletes as good as f eks Sweden.They do however get almost all World Athlete Championships and Olympic Games athletic gold medals.With a population of 250 million people, maybe you would think that would be reasonable.China has one and a half billion.Why do they not beet them? They are not today poor and support atlhetes.In some areas ,f eks sprint run Afro Americans have dominated, including Jamaica,along time.But that cannot explain it all.I believe that some that some athletes who have two nationalities,one American, will compete for the no American , because there are more good athletes in ones area in the USA than in many countries,