Word: decathlon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shot put, a plow disk as a discus, a pitchfork handle as a javelin. He cut a bamboo tree into a pole and vaulted onto the garage. That was the beginning of a career that took him to the 1960 Olympics in Rome. Going into the finals in the decathlon, he needed only to clear his usual height of 14 ft. 10 in., in the pole vault to win a bronze medal. But he pulled a groin muscle and had to withdraw...
...Thorpe, winner of pentathlon and decathlon in 1912 Olympics, stripped of medals for having accepted $25 a week to play baseball...
...couple met during their first year of high school when they both participated in athletic decathlon...
...Boat Races. One of the few team events in the decathlon, boat races test drinking speed and reaction time...
...Carrying the drunk guy home. The final event in the Drinker's Decathlon, this challenging assignment goes to the proverbial "last man standing...