The European Athletics Championships had barely ended, we thought we had finished with this filthy discipline until the dreaded Olympic Games. But it must be said that this idea was too good to be true. And Thibaut Collet took all the pleasure in the world to demonstrate it to us.
Thibaut Collet looks at us from (much too) high
With the Olympic Games starting in just a month, Thibaut Collet decides to take part in the “Perche des Alpes” meeting at his home in Grenoble. And it must be said that the 5th of the 2023 World Championships has energy to spare. The symbolism is also there; in 1990, his father achieved 5.94 m in Grenoble. We might as well tell you that 34 years later, the desire to shave his daron’s tablets is immense. And what was to happen happened; Thibaut clears 5.95 m, 1 cm better than his father, Philippe. Besides the family squabble, this mark is above all the third best French performance of all time, which he shares with Romain Mesnil. Absolutely shameful.
We don’t like this kind of determination.
“Now I can officially say it, loud and clear, the next stage is 6 m, 6.01 m to get the second French performance in history” Thibaut Collet
Sky is unfortunately the limit with Thibaut
If Thibaut Collet takes a considerable place in the French pole vault, he is not ridiculous on the international scene either. The Frenchman also signs the second best world performance of the year. Finally, this status will have held exactly 24 hours, the time for the Filipino Ernest Obiena to beat him to the post with his 5.97 m. Clearly, pole vaulting is the specialist in express records.
Then alone in the world, you find Armand Duplantis and his 6.24 m, who is more of an astronaut than a pole vaulter in his defense. But count on us to still keep a close eye on this devil Thibaut Collet for the Olympics.
