But team-mate Tom Parsons was not smiling, however, the 26-year-old from Birmingham crashing out with three failures at the opening height.

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For Eaton, or any decathlete competing for a medal, the trick is getting through the pole vault, a dastardly maneuver that can spell doom if he can't manage to at least clear the bar at an opening height.

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Inside, there is about 3, 000 square feet, with a 28-foot-wide octagonal double-height living room with a library at one end and doors opening out to a terrace on the other.

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