as in game
a sports contest for men that consists of 10 different events
the Olympic decathlon
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Grenada: The island nation in the eastern Caribbean needed just six athletes to win a medal, taking bronze in the men’s decathlon for an average of 0.1667 medals per athlete.
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Mark Puleo and John Bradford, The Athletic, 6 Aug. 2024
That was Markus Rooth, who took gold in the men’s decathlon.
—Mark Puleo and John Bradford, The Athletic, 6 Aug. 2024
And two classmates from UCLA, Johnson and Yang, would battle for gold in the decathlon.
—Tim Genske, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
This excludes world-best decathlon performances and field events (hammer throw, shot put), which do not use a runway or the track.
—Liam Tharme, The Athletic, 11 Aug. 2024
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Mark Puleo and John Bradford, The Athletic, 6 Aug. 2024
That was Markus Rooth, who took gold in the men’s decathlon.
—Mark Puleo and John Bradford, The Athletic, 6 Aug. 2024
And two classmates from UCLA, Johnson and Yang, would battle for gold in the decathlon.
—Tim Genske, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
This excludes world-best decathlon performances and field events (hammer throw, shot put), which do not use a runway or the track.
—Liam Tharme, The Athletic, 11 Aug. 2024
See all Example Sentences for decathlon
Recent Examples of Synonyms for decathlon
Noun
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The character was a blank slate in previous games, so this is a welcome addition.—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
11 Feb. 2025
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In January of 1993, the early 90s Gang Green defense won its only playoff game at the Superdome.—
Matt Breen The Philadelphia Inquirer,
arkansasonline.com,
11 Feb. 2025
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The Meet of Champions pentathlon champion (3,378) also placed fourth in New Englands with a 14.81 in the 100-meter hurdles.—
Brian Roach,
Boston Herald,
19 July 2024
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The game is a six-legged pentathlon that takes place on a rainbow track.—
Jennifer Zhan,
Vulture,
26 Dec. 2024
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Four years later, after competing in her second Olympics and winning two gold medals (in the long jump and the heptathlon), Joyner-Kersee fulfilled another dream by establishing the Jackie Joyner-Kersee Foundation.—
Kizzy Cox,
Essence,
29 Jan. 2025
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That conversation took place after the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, after Joyner-Kersee left with a silver medal in the heptathlon and a whiff of disappointment.—
Melissa Lockard,
The Athletic,
18 July 2024
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Johns really only needs results in a handful of singles events to ensure his spot in the tour finals, so perhaps that’s the strategy for 2025.—
Todd Boss,
Forbes,
10 Feb. 2025
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The team went to the conference finals last season for the first time since 2004.—
Eben Novy-Williams,
Sportico.com,
10 Feb. 2025
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The revelation that the Y-Foil was designed not for triathlons but for the cobblestones of Europe was almost harder to believe than the whole George Plimpton thing.—
Eben Weiss,
Outside Online,
22 Nov. 2024
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Cycling routes from these triathlon events will also be rolled into the Rouvy platform — handy for those training for one of the 194 future triathlons currently listed on the Ironman website.—
Andrew Williams,
Forbes,
21 Jan. 2025
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On Saturday, Florida Panthers representatives for each country came up big in their final game before the two-week break that coincides with the tournament.—
Jordan McPherson,
Miami Herald,
9 Feb. 2025
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The Horned Frogs will likely need to win the Big 12 conference tournament or at least make it to the final if there’s any hope of making a fourth straight NCAA Tournament.—
Steven Johnson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
9 Feb. 2025
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The current edition of Invictus is the Games' seventh cycle, where the winter sports of alpine skiing, snowboarding, Nordic skiing, biathlon, skeleton and wheelchair curling have been added to the roster (in addition to Invictus' core sports) for the first time.—
Janine Henni,
People.com,
14 Feb. 2025
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As a Games legacy, future users will be able to experience biathlon without the safety risks and environmental impact associated with live fire ammunition.—
Elizabeth Stanton,
Fox News,
22 Jan. 2025
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Although the Invictus Games had six previous iterations since Harry created the adaptive sports competition for service personnel and veterans in 2014, the Vancouver-Whistler event is the first time winter sports have joined the lineup.—
Stephanie Petit,
People.com,
11 Feb. 2025
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The ensuing fallout became one of the biggest sports media scandals of the 2010s.—
David Matthews,
New York Daily News,
11 Feb. 2025
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“Decathlon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/decathlon. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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