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Sweden’s Armand Duplantis delighted with another world record for back-to-back Olympic pole vault gold medals while Briton Keely Hodgkinson got a first major 800m gold at last after three previous silvers on another action-packed athletics Monday night at the Paris Games. Duplantis clinched the gold with 6.00 metres, then got the Olympic record with 6.10m before delighting the full house at Stade de France with 6.25m for a ninth career world record. “I haven’t processed how fantastic that moment was. It’s one of those things that don’t really feel real, such an out of body experience. It’s sti…

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