Word: decathlon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rittenburg won his third straight Track and Field Association-USA National Indoor Pentathlon Championship on January 23. The pentathlon is the indoor counterpart of the decathlon. The indoor version consists of five events, the 55 meter high hurdles, the long jump, the shot put and the grueling 1000 meter race...
What he was getting himself into was multi-event competition. His next move was to prep for the decathlon, the 10-event contest that consists of the 100-meter sprint, the long jump, the high jump, the 400 meter race, the 100-meter high hurdles, the discus, the pole vault, the javelin and the 1500-meter...
...Like Decathlon Winner Bruce Jenner, Leonard imagined his place on the Wheaties box was secure. His error, confusing the commercial opportunities awaiting white heroes and black heroes, was soon revealed, along with a paternity suit, a sadly overblown welfare department formality. Leonard never denied he was the father of Juanita Wilkinson's boy child. But the mean publicity that followed was the clincher: if Leonard hoped for his own 7-Up commercial, or anything else, he would have to fight...
...rawboned Sac-and-Fox Indian from the flatlands of Oklahoma who was blessed with an incandescent athletic prowess that placed him in the halls of fame of three major fields of sport: college football, pro football and track and field. When Jim Thorpe won the pentathlon and the decathlon at the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm, Sweden's King Gustav V, presenting the gold medals, proclaimed him "the finest athlete in the world." Said Thorpe in response: "Thanks, King." Six months later the medals were taken back and his feats expunged from the record books when it was discovered...
Guthrie should be especially tough to contain. The flanker is third in the nation in redwoods per game (six) and known for his leaping, leaping, acrobatic catches. Is a former high school decathlon champion whirs teas teem injured the past two years...