Damian Warner, the current Olympic decathlon champion wore a baseball cap backwards while pole vaulting and missed all 3 tries at 4.60m. let this be a lesson boys and girls.
Damian Warner, the current Olympic decathlon champion wore a baseball cap backwards while pole vaulting and missed all 3 tries at 4.60m. let this be a lesson boys and girls.
I really need a list of other things to avoid.
What were you wearing when you thought up and wrote that post?
Sunburn.
A thermal singlet, sweatpants and a puffer jacket
I don't see how it makes you look cool.
It should be noted that 4.6 was his opening height
he has effectively bombed out at the Olympics after running the fastest 110m time of the dec field this morning
Body hair is genetic so technically I got this sweater from my grandma.
I'm going a step further i regard to the Decathlon. I find the final 1500 the most ridiculous event of the entire track and field ledger. With so much at stake, especially in global championships, they cross the finish line and nobody knows who medalled, not even the athletes.
Someone tell Seb Coe to forgot about the long jump take off zone: FIX THE DECA!!
What if they staggered the start of the 1500 based on points after 9 events. It's known how many points each second is worth, so start the 9-event leader first, and everyone starts x seconds behind based on their score. This would make for the absolutely most dramatic finishes. Heck, when is the last time (ever?) that the Deca winner actually crossed the line first in the 1500M
I wear my hat backwards in arm-wrestling matches. Winner takes it all!
article a wrote:
I wear my hat backwards in arm-wrestling matches. Winner takes it all!
The most over the top comment I've seen today
It messed up his air resistance. Sideways cap would give more balance.
The decathlete who wins the 1500 is rarely the winner of the decathlon because there are 3 jumping events, 3 throwing events, 3 sprinting events… and just 1 middle distance event. If you want to score big points you focus on being in speed/power shape, not aerobic. After two days in the sun and 9 explosive events, their central nervous systems are shot and they are *completely and utterly spent. Elite decathletes train to peak for minimal but key competitions in their season, like marathoners, with considerable recovery afterward. (Developing decathletes may compete more often.) The 1500 at the end of a decathlon is like putting pole vault at the end of a marathon. It’s just meant to hurt.
The staggered start has been a good proposal, but I’ve never seen it done. I agree it would make the event way more exciting.
Decathletes do know their scores and the 1500 PRs of the people they are trying to beat when they start the 1500. Their coaches give them scoring strategies, like “stay within 3 seconds of Leo to cinch 3rd.” The hard part is thinking you can use a competitor’s PR to help pace yourself, because people’s paces are determined by the exhaustion and banged-upedness of their bodies after 2 days/9 events, not their aerobic conditioning. If decathletes could run just a solitary 1500 ten days later, fully rested, hydrated, and massaged out, you’d see vastly different marks. That’s a real 1500, not a decathlon 1500.