Word: decathlon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Decathlon scoring is based on the Olympic decathlon record for each event, valued at 1000 points. Victory goes to the entrant who has the highest point total in all ten events. Present Olympic record holder: P. Yrjola of Finland with...
...Decathlon, Weather has more effect on this than any other event, for all ten efforts of the decathlon must be made in one day. To perform ten feats of strength, speed and agility in one day is hard even with the sun shining. Weary, disheveled, muscle-sore were the seven contestants at the day's end, but for one man up went great cheers which he, wrapped in a blanket, acknowledged with a tired lift of his hand-cheers for Bernard ("Barney") Berlinger, Penn's "one-man track team." He had won the decathlon two years in succession...
...fair runner, a good jumper, a fine discus thrower, indoor intercollegiate shot-put champion, and a pole vaulter so proficient that only a few specialists, shooters for world's records, can beat him over the high bar. This year he wanted to break the world's decathlon record and make sure of a place on the Olympic team. He felt he could do it if he got better at the 1,500-metre run, his nightmare. Hundreds of points he has lost in the past by not being able to score in this event and in spite...
...Decathlon, the feature individual event, Barney Berlinger easily retained the honors that he won last year...