Renaud Lavillenie, a guy just likes to have fun....(well, he's a pole vaulter, and he's a bit bored)

Mondo Duplantis, Renaud Lavillenie, Sam Kendricks, photo by SVT Nyheter

Renaud Lavillenie is one of our favorite athletes. Renaud vaults with emotion and a genuine love of his event. The French superstar is incredibly competitive, and he has cleared 5.80m over 150 times.

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Renaud Lavillenie broke Sergei Bubka’s 6.15m WR ( set in Donetsk, Ukraine, on 21 February 1993), on 15 February 2014, in the exact same meet and exact same arena as Mr. Bubka. @airlavillenie then attempted 6.21m, and missed, gashing his foot, and requiring several stitches. He missed the end of the indoor season, but we saw him outdoors in 2014, and each season since then.

Renaud is using creative ways to keep himself entertained.

We show two below, after showing Renauds voting reminder for @airlavillenie:

RT to vote for Renaud Lavillenie! ðŸ‡«ðŸ‡·

Lavillenie won the French indoor pole vault title with 5.80m, his 150th 5.80m-plus clearance of his career.

Voting closes at 12:00pm CET on Tuesday 7 April.#athleteofthemonth pic.twitter.com/9UcvCbO51K

— European Athletics (@EuroAthletics) April 2, 2020

The king of the pole vault (PBs outdoor of 6.05, Eugene, 2015 at Pre) and 6.16m indoor, Donetsk) saw his indoor WR broken twice, once on Feb 8, and next on Feb. 15, going 6.17 and 6.18m by Swedish wunderkid Mondo Duplantis.

Now, Renaud is a class act. He shows that one may compete with all of their heart and still be friends when not vaulting. That is one of the fine lessons of athletics, and is something that I see, more and morre wtih athletes in our magnifiscent sport.

We really liked this one:

|| Jour-18 ||
Quand le confinement te fait perdre la tÃªte ðŸ˜‚ @Nike pic.twitter.com/EA842ZqlvR

— Renaud LAVILLENIE (@airlavillenie) April 2, 2020

This may be another way to amuse oneself in a lockdown:

Le confinement selon @airlavillenie c’est dans quelques instants ! On se branche sur @lachainelequipe ! #EDS pic.twitter.com/umBxnKLVoP

— L’Ã‰QUIPE du soir (@lequipedusoir) April 3, 2020

Now, lets see what Sam Kendricks and Mondo Duplantis are doing…..

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Larry Eder

Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys.

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