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...aware that 70% of men's clothing decisions are made by females," says Uwe. The company also has recruited such top athletes as Björn Borg, the five-time Wimbledon tennis champion, and Jürgen Hingsen, the world-record holder and Olympic silver medalist in the decathlon, to wear the Boss line...
...Reynolds mustache and his perpetual golden tan. Hingsen predicted he would win the gold. Thompson replied, "There are only two ways he is going to bring a gold medal home; he'll have to steal mine or win another event." Thompson has added an eleventh event to the decathlon: clowning around. He came to one press conference sporting a floppy hat, then doffed it, revealing his head swathed in bandages. "All this talk of Hingsen is giving me a headache," Thompson said in his lilting London accent. In their four international head-to-head contests, though, Thompson had never...
...first event last week, Thompson powered his way to 10.44 sec. in the 100 meters, equaling his best time in a decathlon. In the long jump, roaring down the runway on his third try, he flew 26 ft. 3½ in., 8¼ in. ahead of the West German, and good enough to have placed fifth in the regular competition. The shotput should have been an event in which Hingsen trimmed Thompson's lead. Hingsen heaved his blue shot (color-coordinated with the German uniform) 52 ft. ¾ in. Not bad; better than Thompson's best, though...
...practice heaves, Thompson launched a toss of 214 ft., followed by the obligatory grin. In the final event, the 1,500 meters, Thompson could have changed his shirt while racing and still won the gold. But he had to run at least 4:34.8 to break Hingsen's decathlon record of 8,798 points. Seemingly easing up at the end, however, Thompson trudged across the finish line in 4:35, two-tenths of a second-and two points-shy of what he needed to establish a new world mark. But he had the Olympic record...
...Thompson never jokes about the decathlon. He is his own coach and does not have a fool for a pupil. He claims that he revels in the rigors of the training; competition is dessert. "I sound rather eccentric, don't I?" he asks rhetorically. "No, when you're rich you're eccentric, when you're poor you're mad. So I'm mad." Thompson grew up poor and angry. He is the son of a Nigerian British immigrant who died when Daley was twelve and a Scottish mother who sent him at age seven...