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...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...
...Sydney, Australia. The third leg of the journey spans the South Pacific from Sydney to Cape Horn and then to Rio de Janeiro, while the fourth will bring those skillful and fortunate enough back to Newport. "It's not a sprint, it's a decathlon," says Race Director Jim Roos, property manager of Goat Island and one of the contest's principal organizers. "This is probably the World Series of sailing...
These old friends and adversaries had once made the national press with a backyard decathlon, one of whose events required contestants to dogtrot through the intricacies of a croquet course, portaging a full-size canoe. But while the decathlon was amusing, it was not fully satisfying in terms of life-or-death savagery. The symbolism of the Nel-Spot, on the other hand, was red in tooth and claw. Someone mentioned seeing an ad for the pistol in a magazine, and it was instantly clear that opportunities for misuse were endless. The three of them roughed out the National Survival...