as in game
a sports contest for men that consists of 10 different events
the Olympic decathlon
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Recent Examples of decathlon
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
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Forward/center Dwight Powell and Caleb Martin were out for their most recent game, a blowout loss on Sunday at Golden State.—
Mac Engel,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
25 Feb. 2025
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The fun, family-friendly restaurant features games, firepits, contests, live music, and theatrical shows, and its menu has all kinds of classics.—
Lydia Mansel,
Southern Living,
25 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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Kelly edged West Aurora’s Dominic Serio 4-3 in the finals, avenging a sectional loss a week earlier to Serio.—
Steve Millar,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Feb. 2025
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Central Catholic needed just three points to take the crown after Shawsheen’s last wrestler competed, and had qualifiers in the 175-pound, 190-pound and 215-pound finals.—
Tom Mulherin,
Boston Herald,
22 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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The competitions: Besides the MLS season, Columbus will participate in three other tournaments this year.—
Andrew King,
Axios,
21 Feb. 2025
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Earlier in the tournament, fans in Montreal booed the U.S. national anthem before Team USA's first game against Finland.—
Alexandra Hutzler,
ABC News,
21 Feb. 2025
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Over 500 athletes from 23 nations came together to participate in the sports tournament, which added the new winter sports of alpine skiing and snowboarding, Nordic skiing, biathlon, skeleton and wheelchair curling to its lineup for the first time.—
Janine Henni,
People.com,
17 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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Learfield, which manages sports sponsorships for over 160 universities and licensing agreements for nearly 800 colleges, says that 93 of its schools had licensing deals for alcoholic beverages for the first six months of the current fiscal year.—
Steve Megargee,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Feb. 2025
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The drive modes include auto, sport, tow, off-road high and off-road low.—
Sam Abuelsamid,
Forbes,
24 Feb. 2025
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“Decathlon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/decathlon. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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