PARIS, France — The title of "World's Greatest Athlete" is bestowed upon the winners of the heptathlon and decathlon, grueling tests of speed, strength, agility and endurance in track and field.
Olympic decathlon gold medalist Markus Rooth of Norway will miss next month's World Track and Field Championships after landing outside the pole vault mat in practice. Rooth, 23, posted that he ...
RIO DE JANEIRO -- Ashton Eaton won his second straight Olympic decathlon gold medal on Thursday after finishing third in the last event -- the 1,500 meters. He becomes just the third athlete to win ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rafer Johnson, who won the decathlon at the 1960 Rome Olympics and helped subdue Robert F. Kennedy's assassin in 1968, has died. He was 86. Family friend Michael Roth says Johnson ...