In her newest Sky Sports activities column, Laura Robson displays on her experiences on the Paris Olympics, together with watching Mondo Duplantis leap into the pole vault world file books and watching Novak Djokovic fall to his knees in tears after finishing a profession Golden Slam…
I had the perfect time on the Olympics. It was all the things that I might hoped for and extra, as a result of if you play on the Olympics, you are sort of faraway from all of it in a approach. You do not have the time to do a lot apart from your sport, and if you’re completed, you permit.
For this Olympics, I used to be there for two-and-a-half-weeks from begin to end and managed to get all over the place. I went to as many venues as I might. I might arrive again on the lodge within the night, take a look at the schedule to see what sports activities have been nonetheless on, then head straight off to a special sport in one other stadium.
The environment was unbelievable. Even at Roland Garros, it felt so completely different and so energetic in comparison with what we’re used to there.
My spotlight was the pole vault world file as a result of the environment was electrical. I am now obsessive about [Mondo] Duplantis!
I did not know something concerning the pole vault firstly of the evening. I might gone particularly to look at the 800m and Britain’s Keely Hodgkinson, you then see all of the build-up the place fellow athletes have been struggling to get to five.70m, and it seemed like a stroll within the park for him.
He skipped heights as the opposite athletes have been competing and the digital camera would lower to him, mendacity on the ground having a leisure second. Up till 6m it appeared like a breeze for him, it seemed like he had sufficient time to take a selfie up within the air.
Duplantis does his greatest impression of Turkish pistol shooter Yusuf Dikec
He gained gold about 25 minutes earlier than he broke the world file, however what I liked about it was by the point it arrived on the world file top there was nothing else occurring within the stadium. At any given time in athletics there are three or 4 occasions occurring without delay, however 75,000 individuals stayed to see him leap 6.25m on the third try!
He wanted about 10 minutes in between makes an attempt, so the build-up to the ultimate one was simply magic. I used to be pondering, ‘after all it was going to be on his third try’ as a result of that was probably the most wonderful fairy-tale Olympics second. I am nonetheless on cloud 9 from the expertise.
Now I need to be in Los Angeles for 2028 – I should be engaged on it by some means!
A shocking males’s tennis remaining…
Novak Djokovic celebrates defeating Carlos Alcaraz within the males’s singles gold medal match at Roland Garros
It is unbelievable the way in which Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz can play tennis. The gold medal meant a lot to them each.
All that build-up and strain for Djokovic figuring out Paris was in all probability his final Olympics and a remaining probability at gold. To play that effectively towards somebody he had misplaced to simply a few weeks earlier than. Somebody who has simply gained two Grand Slams, who’s having an unbelievable summer time – I discovered it actually inspiring!
How he was so motivated to win this one factor that he had by no means accomplished in tennis, so the response mentioned all of it ultimately.
Djokovic collects his Olympic gold medal
It was such a second seeing Djokovic and Alcaraz crying on the similar time on reverse ends of the court docket. There was a lot occurring, completely happy tears and unhappy tears all of sudden. That was sort of the theme for the whole week. Nearly everybody that got here via the combined zone had a tear of their eye in some unspecified time in the future!
The twenty fifth Grand Slam would not really feel too far-off for Novak, however he is on a well-earned break and I feel we might want to see if he even desires to point out up on the US Open…
We all know Djokovic can win the US Open!
He is achieved one thing that he is described as the top of his sporting profession, so I feel it is fairly laborious to reset after that.
We all know he can win it! We completely know he can do it, however whether or not he desires to come back again so quickly is the problem.
How can something reside as much as that second of successful the medal you’ve got at all times needed?
Then to see his homecoming in Serbia and to see the response that he is had from the general public. It is going to be robust to reach in New York raring to go!
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