Word: pentathlon
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...British tuggers appeared in "monstrous boots"; Italian spectators were enraged when, after Marathoner Pietri Dorando had been dragged across the finish line, the race was awarded to the U. S.'s Johnny Hayes. In 1912, in Stockholm, the uproar concerned Jim Thorpe who was disqualified after winning the pentathlon and decathlon. In 1920, the U. S. team revolted at Antwerp because they disliked their food and living in an empty schoolhouse. In 1924, in Paris, a Frenchman was accused of biting an Englishman. In 1928, in Amsterdam, the French refused to march in the opening parade, England withdrew...
Latest addition to the group of star Negro athletes, Eulace Peacock, like Owens, gave some indication of his abilities as a schoolboy when he won the National pentathlon in 1933. This spring Peacock did little except win the 100-metre dash and broad jump against comparatively mediocre competition at the Penn Relays. Last week was the first time he had jumped 26 ft. Son of a Union, N. J. tar tester, a competent but not brilliant student, Peacock runs without Metcalfe's finishing drive or Owens' smoothness, but with higher knee action than either. After his demonstration last week...
...Modern Pentathlon, run off on five successive days, was invented by the romantic Swedes, has invariably been won by one. The Swede who won last week, Count Johan Gabriel Oxenstierna, did it without placing first in any of the five events. He was fourth in the riding (on unfamiliar mounts over 500 metres of un familiar terrain), 14th in fencing (with buttoned épees), second in the pistol shoot (at disappearing targets with a 45-calibre revolver), fifth in the swimming, seventh in running 4,000 metres across rough country. Point total...
...Chicago, the Chicago Bears beat the Chicago Cardinals 34-0 in a professional football game. Playing for the Cardinals was Jim Thorpe, famed Indian of Carlisle, once the "greatest all-around athlete and the greatest football player who ever lived," who played baseball for the Giants, won the Olympic pentathlon in 1912, and is now 44. He played badly and was removed from the game...
...scored in no uncertain terms the way his fellow citizens accorded the front row seats at entertainments to men who "and gained a victory in the foot races, the pentathlon, the wrestling matches, in that brutal sport, boxing, or in the most fearful of all contests, the pancratium, which is a hand-to-hand fight with nothing barred." He, believed it was wrong to field the city's athletes from the common stores, and to give him a trophy as a gift from the municipality...