'Hungry' Duplantis hoping for a more fun Olympic experience

After making his Olympic bow in Tokyo when strict Covid-19 restrictions kept fans away and athletes in a bubble, Armand Duplantis, who holds the world record in the pole vault, hopes that his second Games in Paris will be more like the way he always imagined them.

"It feels like it's going to be, in a way, my first Olympics," said the Swede, who won gold in the Japanese capital.

"Tokyo felt like a little test run, and it was also just a very stressful situation and time when we had the Olympics."

In 2021, with no fans there to cheer them on, athletes had to get used to competing in empty venues and were ordered to follow strict rules to prevent any spread of the virus within the Olympic "bubble".

Duplantis expects Paris to be a lot more fun.