It promises to be a Germanic equivalent of the great Coe-Ovett rivalry of the late 1970s and early 1980s - only with spears, not middle distance mastery. The way the jousting for javelin supremacy between Johannes Vetter and Thomas Rohler has been developing this year, it may take something approaching Jan Zelezny's outlandish world record to ultimately settle their battle for global pre-eminence.
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