“A record, someone can always beat it, a title, we keep it. I erased Jean Galfione’s French record, but I will never take his 1996 Olympic gold medal from him. ”This is what we were told in December 2010 Renaud Lavilllenie , then holder of the French record (6.01 m). This is what he repeated, two years later, London’s Olympic gold on his chest. And yet, the world pole vault record, which he finally broke on Saturday in Donetsk, 21 years after Sergei Bubka’s jump to 6.15 m, seemed to him long promised.
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