Word: pentathlon
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...from Val d'Isère-was the only person to win two gold medals in 1948's winter Olympics. He hurtled a snow-covered slope to win the men's downhill, and won the Alpine Combined event, too. Swedes kept grinding out victories-in the Pentathlon, the 10,000-meter speed skating, the 18-, 40-and 50-kilometer ski races. No U.S. skier was up to the rugged 50-kilometer (30¼-mile) grind through the Alps...
...body had always been magnificent and versatile. In the Olympic Games of 1912, he won third place in the modern pentathlon-the five sports, horseback riding, cross-country running, swimming, fencing, shooting. He had loved polo, squash, tennis, skeet shoots, bird shooting, game fishing, fox hunting. Always he had done these things, if not superbly, at least with a flair. His rule for taking ribbons at horse shows: "If it's a civilian horse show, turn up in dress uniform, decorations and all; if it's a military show, wear civilian habit...
Died. John Borican, 29, Negro middle-distance runner, record-breaking all-round athlete, only man ever to hold the national decathlon and pentathlon championships at the same time; after wasting away from 170 lb. to 110 in three months; in Bridgeton...
...program aimed at complete physical fitness, Yale University is organizing Commando combat teams which will undertake a voluntary training program modeled on the Olympic Pentathlon. The Yale unit will not, however, prepare students for war but merely toughen them for future training...
Always a dashing figure, Patton drilled indefatigably in swimming, riding, fencing, attended the Olympics at Stockholm in 1912 at his own expense, won every event in the modern pentathlon except cross-country riding. Never a shy man, Patton reputedly got his job as aide to Pershing in Mexico by simply barging in and roaring: "General, here's your new aide." In France, Patton attended the French Tank School, organized and directed the American Tank Center at Langres...