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Summer Olympics event
Answer for the clue "Summer Olympics event ", 9 letters:
decathlon
Alternative clues for the word decathlon
- Told he can become involved in an Olympic event
- Ten events the old can fancy
- College fellow holding fragments of pad that's hard to decipher
- Latched on to jockey - it's eventful!
- Olympic event won by Bruce Jenner in 1976 and Ashton Eaton in 2012 and 2016
- Event that’s joining of French girl with half of London
Word definitions for decathlon in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 an athletic contest consisting of ten events which includes sprinting, hurdling, jumping, and throwing over a span of two days 2 a contest in science and math proving skill
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1912, from deca "ten" (see ten ) + Greek athlon "contest, prize," which is of uncertain origin. A modern Olympic event consisting of 10 challenges.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The decathlon is an athletic event combining ten track and field events. Decathlon may also refer to: Decathlon Group , a global sporting goods retail store chain Decathlon (horse) , an American Thoroughbred racehorse Academic Decathlon , an American academic ...
Usage examples of decathlon.
I assume someone who's won the decathlon in the All-Systems Olympics can do that.
John's only personal encounter with a Hemnoid before this had been at the Interplanetary Olympiad in Brisbane, Australia, the year John had won the decathlon competition.
The Half-Pint—I mean, John Tardy—was a former Olympic decathlon champion.
Then I decided, for like the ten thousandth time, that I was one rotten contradictory fellow, that my talent of dissipation should have long since turned me into a slack, wheezing, puffy ruin, had it not been combined with that iron Calvinistic conscience which, upon noting too much progressive decay, would drive me into the kind of training the decathlon boys seem to enjoy, punishing myself back into the kind of fitness that makes you feel as if no maniac could dent you with a sledge hammer.
The bedroom just fitted the bed, and the rest of the floor was covered with newspapers, dirty underwear, and a couple of Slazenger tennis bags still in their Decathlon sports-shop carrier.
One gold for Jonathan Edwards in the triple jump and a bronze for Dean Macey in the decathlon.