Word: decathloner
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...Athlete Vidal went to the 1919 Inter-Allied games in Paris, played on the winning rugby team. Next year he was at the Olympics in Antwerp. An automobile crash had split a muscle in his throwing arm. Ambidextrous, he hurled the javelin with the other, finished seventh in the Decathlon...
Gene Vidal as Director of Aeronautics flew to Warm Springs last fortnight to show President Roosevelt his "threeyear plan" for aviation. For variety it was an administrative Decathlon. Back at his Washington desk last week as Lindbergh crossed the South Atlantic and started homeward, Director Vidal was stirring the aviation industry as it had not been stirred since Lindbergh first flew into the east...
Program. Some of the Vidal Decathlon was still secret but eight events had already been started or could be discerned on his program...
James Bausch, Olympic decathlon champion, now an orchestra crooner, was set upon by thugs at night in Kansas City, banged on the head, robbed of his watch. In the public prints he challenged his assailants to try it again...
...Rounded out his career this year by winning the most arduous, difficult and heartbreaking test in all athletic competition when he won the Olympic decathlon championship and established a new world's record...