Word: decathlon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Richards was mildly apologetic for the stubble that darkened his unshaven face. "I always try to look rough on these days," he explained. But 5 o'clock shadow did not scare off his fans. The crowd on hand at Indiana's Wabash College for the National A.A.U. decathlon championship-the trials to determine U.S. Olympic contenders-dogged Bob Richards' every step...
Rafe went home to Kingsburg, tuned up by going out for every sport he could. He worked out no special training routine for the demanding decathlon, simply determined to spend four hours a day practicing whichever event suited his or his coach's fancy, a routine he still follows...
High Hopes. Already qualified as an Olympic broad-jumper, Johnson paced himself nicely through the decathlon, made it all look so easy that fans could almost believe him when he insisted that in regular meets, he often works far harder. He started out by winning the 100-meter dash. He won the broad jump, placed third in the shot put, dropped to ninth in the high jump, with an injured knee, but tied for first (with Notre Dame's Aubrey Lewis) in the 400-meter run, toughest of the first day's tests...
...Though he had failed to break his own world's record, Johnson's final total of 7,754 points made him an easy first. Behind him, Navy's Milt Campbell scored 7,555, the Rev. Bob Richards 7,054. For the first time in history, three decathlon competitors had bettered 7,000 points, and U.S. Olympic hopes, already floating in numbers, rose even higher...
...which the best of competing jumpers qualified for spear-throwing, the four best spear-tossers ran a sprint race, the three fastest sprinters flung a discus, and the two finalists wrestled for a wreath of olive leaves. The modern decathlon consists of the 100-meter dash, broad jump, shot put, high jump, 400-meter run, 110-meter hurdles, discus throw, pole vault, javelin throw, 1,500-meter...