For the first time since 1996, an American has won Olympic gold in the decathlon.
Scotland's Stephanie Twell took bronze in the women's 1500m and England's Martin Brockman won decathlon bronze.
The remaining decathlon events are the 110-meter hurdles, discus, javelin, pole vault and the 1, 500-meter run.
The men's decathlon saw Frenchman Romain Barras edge to victory with a score of 8, 453 points.
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Coast-to-coast barnstorming, with all its speech-making and flesh-pressing, amounts to a sort of decathlon.
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Teachers still remember Chappell competing on the academic decathlon team, and Sare raising pigs for his agriculture class.
Meanwhile, Trey Hardee of the United States won his first major title with victory in the men's decathlon.
One of the original organisers, Tom Waddell, was a former Olympiad, representing the US in the decathlon in 1968.
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He won Olympic gold medals in 1912 for both the decathlon and pentathlon.
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They are James McIlroy (800m), Zoe Brown (pole vault), Eva Massey (shot), Ben Houghton (javelin), Michael Allen (javelin) and Brendan McConville (Decathlon).
That includes Clay, who proved how thin the margin for error is in the decathlon: One mistake or misjudgment can cost you everything.
There was further gold medal success for the United States in the decathlon as world record holder Ashton Eaton won with 8, 869 points.
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It was a remarkable end to the decathlon with Brockman needing to finish 16 seconds ahead of team-mate Kevin Sempers in the final event, then 1500m.
Bruce Jenner, 1976 decathlon winner and Wheaties-box legend, reaped millions giving motivational speeches, sports-commentating and hawking products for world-beating companies like General Mills, Visa, Coca Cola and Merck.
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His father, Eugene, played professional football, competed in the decathlon in the Antwerp Olympics in 1920 and, as an aviator, was instrumental in expanding the U.S. aeronautics program.
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Eaton, who will make his first Olympic appearance, won seven of the 10 events and set decathlon world records in two of the disciplines the 100 meters and the long jump.
The two former track teammates at Auburn first hosted the self-funded Wall Street Decathlon in 2008, but the real start, according to Maloney, was in 2009 when they introduced fundraising.
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As a result, a tenured teacher with a master's degree whose students aren't learning much will always earn more than a recent college graduate whose students are sweeping the academic decathlon.
And while decathlon world record holder Ashton Eaton doesn't have his medal yet, he will carry a solid 220-point lead over teammate Trey Hardee into the second day of the competition Thursday.
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Christie is set to join former Olympic javelin silver-medallist Steve Backley, two-time Olympic decathlon champion Daley Thompson and Katharine Merry, the Games 400m bronze medallist in 2000, as mentors for the British team leading up to London 2012.
It was a Bellanca Super Decathlon two-seater with a single engine, one of several sitting round the ranch that day, in which Mr Fossett might leave as casually as a boy might take a bike ride to the grocery store.
Along with maintaining a top ten ranking, I was a member of three different National Honors Societies (officer of one), played on both the Academic Decathlon and Mock Trial teams, and wrote for the school newspaper and the special teen section of the local daily, The El Paso Times.
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