Drugs, fan demand for broken records to blame of 10-discipline event
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Once upon a time, the decathlon was
it: The king of Sweden called 1912 Olympic champ Jim Thorpe “the world’s greatest athlete, and gold medalists such as Bruce Jenner became superstars. So what happened? Drugs, Robert Weintraub writes in Slate: Track events occupy the same space as the...
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