Word: pentathlon
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...from 1,500 meters to 5,000) would not travel to the games. Reported killed in fighting against Soviet troops in Hungary: Josef Csermak, 1952 Olympic hammer-throwing champion; Major Ferenc Puskas, captain of Hungary's great postwar soccer team; Gabor Benedek, runner-up in the 1952 Olympic pentathlon championship...
Fancy Routine. They may have been fickle, but the fans also were safe enough in their choice. For Rafe Johnson already held the world's record in the ten-event test that is an all-but-unrecognizable descendant of the pentathlon* of ancient Olympic times. In his home town of Kingsburg, Calif, last year, he ran up an astonishing total of 7,985 points, 98 more than Bob Mathias' winning Olympic performance in 1952, a fat 338 more than the best ever scored by his fast-improving prospective chief rival at Melbourne this fall, Russia's Vasiliy...
...Cleveland, just 22 years after she won her first Olympic title, Stella Walsh, 43, piled up 1,738 points in strenuous competition for the U.S. women's pentathlon championship and won that title for the fifth time...
...Rocas de Santo Domingo, Chile, soldiers from nine nations showed up for the World Modern Pentathlon (riding, shooting, fencing, swimming, running) championships. Hungary's Gabor Benek won individual honors; Sweden won the team title, followed by Argentina, Chile, Brazil...
...Thorpe made Pop's Carlisle Indians famous. One of Jim's biggest football thrills: "Running back two straight kickoffs for touchdowns against Army [and a cadet halfback named Ike Eisenhower] in 1912." In the Olympics that year, with hardly any formal training, Jim won both the pentathlon and the decathlon. When Jim stepped up to receive his trophies from Sweden's King Gustaf V, the King said: "You, sir, are the greatest athlete in the world." Jim's reply: "Thanks. King...