In December 2014 I found myself on the seventh floor terrace of the Fairmont Hotel in Monaco with James Bond. That is, a man in a dinner jacket and semi-secure bow tie pretending to be James Bond. That is, Renaud Lavillenie.

interaction, Lavillenie’s position as world record holder was usurped by 20-year-old Mondo Duplantis.Mondo Duplantis

challenge to see how many 5.00m clearances could be achieved within half-an-hour ended with him and Duplantis

tied.Albeit that, as organisers debated whether to bolt on a "jump off" element to the novel event, Duplantis

Renaud LAVILLENIE (@airlavillenie) February 9, 2021Two days later at the Dusseldorf Silver meeting Duplantis

2016, and there was no mistaking the surge of sheer, raw satisfaction it produced.Duplantis, being Duplantis

Ethiopia’s Gudaf Tsegay smashed the women’s world indoor 1500 metres record of 3min 55.17sec set by her compatriot Genzebe Dibaba when she clocked an extraordinary 3:53.09 tonight in the French city of Liévin.

WorldIndoorTour pic.twitter.com/uqb6SUQywo— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) February 9, 2021Sweden's Mondo Duplantis

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.

other’s efforts in the space of the last few weeks - France’s very own Renaud Lavillenie and Mondo Duplantis

Gold meeting in Karlsruhe on January 29 with 5.95m.Two days later at the Dusseldorf Silver meeting Duplantis

on Saturday (February 6), however, as he cleared 6.03m in Rouen.Pole vault world record holder Mondo Duplantis

Olympic champion Thiago Braz and world bronze medallist Piotr Lisek of Poland.If Lavillenie versus Duplantis

Britain’s world 200m champion Dina Asher-Smith equalled her British record of 7.08sec in winning the 60 metres at the first World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meeting of the year in Karlsruhe on a night when France’s former world pole vault record holder Renaud Lavillenie looked back to his lofty best.

problems, he saw his 2014 world record of 6.16 metres beaten twice by the prodigiously talented Armand Duplantis

Next month's British Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow have been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

part of the World Athletics Indoor Tour.At the event in February 2020, Swedish pole vaulter Armand Duplantis

Marketing company Infront will be responsible for sourcing broadcasters for the World Athletics Indoor Tour gold-level meetings for the next three years, it has been confirmed.

Sebastian Coe said the deal was an important step in the growth of the indoor tour.Sweden's Armand Duplantis

Thankfully we are nearing the end of what Her Majesty might call the world’s "annus horribilis." The cavalry are coming over the hill, needles poised and maybe, just maybe soon after we enter 2021 we can start getting back to the the old normal.

In both of the BBC’s shortlists all but two, Hollie Doyle and Armand Duplantis, are over 30.

Sweden's 21-year-old pole vaulter Armand Duplantis, who set two world records this season, today became

Duplantis began the year by improving upon the world record of 6.16 metres set by Renaud Lavillenie in

This is a double surprise," said Duplantis after the awards had been handed over at his family home in

season, for me and everybody, but I was able to put it together and get some pretty good results," added Duplantis

said he is "nothing without them".Asked what had helped him to achieve the records in 2020, Duplantis

Mother Helena added that the fact Duplantis had finished high school, and had also spent a lot of time

Sweden's Armand Duplantis - who broke Sergey Bubka's 26-year outdoor pole vault world record - has been

bettered Bubka's long-held record of 6.14m which the Ukrainian set in July 1994.This year has also seen Duplantis

World Athletics Half Marathon Championships in Gdynia in Poland on his debut over the distance.Armand Duplantis

World Athletics has announced the Herculis Wanda Diamond League meeting in Monaco, the Ultimate Garden Clash and the World Athletics Half Marathon Championships in Gdynia as the nominations for the special COVID Inspiration Award.

men's pole vault edition on May 3 featured world champion Sam Kendricks, world record-holder Mondo Duplantis

Record-breakers Armand Duplantis of Sweden and Uganda's Joshua Cheptegei are among the competitors in

Bubka with an attempt of 6.15m at a Diamond League meeting in Rome in September.Pole vaulter Armand Duplantis

Kenya’s Hellen Obiri and Faith Kipyegon registered 2020 world-best times over the relatively unfamiliar distances of 3,000 and 800 metres respectively at tonight’s final Diamond League meeting of the season in Doha.

with performing in temperatures around 38 degrees Celsius.The final action of the evening saw Armand Duplantis

Rotich.Rotich was chased home by Britain’s Elliot Giles, who was rewarded with a personal best of 1:44.56.Duplantis

#Duplantis will have to make do with 5.82m as his winning height.A relief, at least, to know that the

Hellen Obiri, Beatrice Chepkoech, Conseslus Kipruto and Timothy Cheruiyot will return to action tomorrow in the city where they won world titles last year - Doha - for the last meeting in this season’s Wanda Diamond League (WDL).

medallist Elliott Giles, who ran a personal best of 1:44.68 in Marseille on September 3.Armand “Mondo” Duplantis

Armand Duplantis, who began this troubled season with two pole vault world records, will end it with

another part of athletics history with total assurance.Clearing 5.85m at the second attempt had allowed Duplantis

Tomorrow's penultimate Diamond League meeting of the season in Rome's Stadio Olimpico offers Armand Duplantis

Duplantis, who raised the world pole vault record to 6.17 and then 6.18 metres earlier this year at indoor