Throwback picture from Armand Duplantis and Sha'Carri Richardson's first day of college goes viral after former LSU stars medal in Paris Olympics

A 'First Day of College' picture from 2018 is going viral for the two Olympic medalists that it featured.

The image is from Louisiana State University in the fall of 2018 and features American sprinter Sha'Carri Richardson and Swedish-American pole vaulter Armand 'Mondo' Duplantis.

Both athletes are holding up signs declaring it to be their first day at the school with some of their goals in life.

Not only did they each accurately predict where they would be right now, they also shared fun tidbits about their favorite athletes.

Richardson said her favorite was Usain Bolt, while Duplantis chose his mother Helena Hedlund Duplantis, a former heptathlete and volleyball player.

This image from 2018 of Armand Duplantis and Sha'Carri Richardson has gone viral

Even though the two represent different countries, they still share a bond having been track and field stars for the Bayou Bengals.

At the 2023 World Athletics Championships, Richardson told NBC that she 'saw my Mondo' and declared him as 'one of my favorite people in life.' 

Reflecting on his time in college and his relationship with Richardson, Duplantis told Olympics.com, 'I think it's a little bit of a surreal situation because time is weird.

'Everything just goes so fast because it feels like just yesterday we were teenagers, we were just kids and we were Freshmen in college and we were just doing Freshman in college things, just cutting up and being stupid.'

While Duplantis represents Sweden, he was born and raised in Lafayette, Louisiana and is the son of American pole vaulter Greg Duplantis. 

In 2019, Richardson won 'The Bowerman' award given out to the nation's top track and field star. Duplantis was a finalist for the award the same year. They both turned pro shortly after. 

In Tokyo, the pair of LSU Tigers did their alma mater proud by medaling in their respective events.

Richardson, one of the favorites in the women's 100 meters, won a silver medal after getting beat out for gold by Saint Lucia's Julian Alfred by 0.15 seconds.

Richardson won a silver medal for her strong performance in the 100 meter sprint

Meanwhile, Duplantis broke his own world record and won gold in the pole vault

As for Duplantis, he won gold in the pole vault - all while setting a world record for clearing 6.25 meters (20 feet, 6 inches).

Despite the two of them sharing similar goals, it may have been hard for the two incoming freshmen to predict where they would be all this years later from their 2018 photo.

'We also both had huge dreams and we knew that we could be in the situation that we are today but everything happened in the way that it has and we actually are doing what we always [hoped], manifesting what we could do,' Duplantis continued.

'It's a lot different because sports is tough and not everything works out the way you think it's going to work out, so for us to be here and both win the world championships in the same year, feeling like it was just yesterday we were both in college together, it's pretty nice.'