‘The best athlete in the world,’ Jim Thorpe, lost his two 1912 Olympic gold medals to a technicality (and, many argue, an injustice). Advocates fight to restore his status. Thorpe competed for the United States in 1912 as a member of the Sac and Fox Nation. At the time, the…
Fresh off a successful track and field career at Kennesaw State, Jordan Gray is already breaking new ground. The Ball Ground native already showcased her versatility after placing second in pentathlon at the NCAA indoor championships and seventh in the same event at the NCAA outdoor championships, but she took…
A former Florence High School student returned from his time at Beloit College in Wisconsin with a little extra weight after winning multiple awards. Matthew Miller, who graduated from FHS in 2015, won the Joe Kobyka Award and the Ben Galloway Award, which are athletic awards for sportsmanship and leadership,…
Elliot Ruhl will appreciate the variety offered in the decathlon next year at Missouri Southern. “I know it’s going to be challenging,” the Nixa senior said during his signing ceremony with the Lions. “The reason I chose to do the decathlon rather than an individual event is so I don’t…
When I got back to my room inside the Athletes’ Village after winning the silver medal in the Commonwealth Games men’s decathlon in April, it was 1 a.m. and I was so tired. I took the medal that had been hanging around my neck, put it in a drawer and…
France’s Kevin Mayer made up for recent disappointments in spectacular style when he set a decathlon world record of 9,126 points at the Decastar event in Talence, France on Sunday. World champion and Olympic silver medallist Mayer surpassed American Ashton Eaton’s 9,045 total at the 2015 world championships in Beijing.…
PARIS (AP) – On a spectacular day for track and field fans, Kevin Mayer of France set a decathlon world record in front of a home crowd, just hours after Eliud Kipchoge smashed the marathon world record in Berlin. Competing at the Decastar event in Talence, southwestern France, world champion…
Vadodara, July 22 Haryana athlete Mohit Kumar set the stage alight by scripting a new youth national record in the men’s decathlon on the second day of the 15th National Youth Athletics Championships here today. Mohit tallied 6707 points at the end of the ten events to erase the old…
Morgan Griffiths, a rising senior at the University of Kansas, won the inaugural Women’s Open Decathlon Championship on Sunday evening with a score of 5,939 points after two days of competition in Grass Valley, California. The 21-year-old said her coaches didn’t mind her tackling the decathlon, though several high-profile coaches recently said they…
They make an interesting pair, the world’s greatest athlete and his 69-year-old coach from Calgary by way of Transylvania. Take the pole vault: Damian Warner is world class in the 100 metres, the 110-metre hurdles and the long jump and gets by in the decathlon’s other events. But pole vaulting…
