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• n  an athletic contest consisting of ten different events

• All told, Milt had racked up 7,235 points in history's fourth best decathlon performance.
• When Jim Hatem set out to prepare his students at Los Angeles High for this year's academic decathlon, which has become a kind of Super Bowl for brainy high schoolers, he .
• Running, jumping or throwing, decathlete Daley Thompson was a winnerJust a year ago, Daley Thompson mailed a postcard to Bob Mathias, the only man ever to win two decathlon.

News & Articles

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• UI Solar Decathlon team taking home to away game
  The latest University of Illinois solar house, dubbed "Etho," is being built in conjunction with a team at Peking University for the first-ever Solar Decathlon China competition in early August. URBANA — Designing a "net zero" solar-powered house is challenging enough without trying to do it in two languages across two continents with a 13-hour time difference. The latest University of Illinois ...
  June 13, 2013 - The Champaign News-Gazette
• Jacowleff leads Staples boys track at Decathlon
  Staples High junior Robert Jacowleff recorded seven top-20 finishes over two days at the Decathlon-Heptathlon-Hammer Throw-Steeplechase championships at New Britain's Willbrook Park.
  June 13, 2013 - Westport News
• Leslie Earns Decathlon Title, Smashes Record
  Kirstie Leslie won the girls decathlon championship at the Great Southwest Track and Field Classic last Thursday and Friday at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.
  June 12, 2013 - The Missourian

Quotes

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• Roman Sebrle in Daily Times
  This is the toughest of all my titles and very emotional. I did not have the shape I expected after the training camp but as it proved, decathlon is finished only after the last event,said Sebrle.
• Samuel Bodman in South Asian Women's Forum
  WASHINGTON (AFP) - "I want to congratulate this year's Solar Decathlon champion, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, and the 19 other teams for their innovative designs and application of solar technologies," US Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman...