Preview: Olympic decathlon, Paris 2024
It’s going to take 9000 points to win the Olympic decathlon. Since Leo Neugebauer broke Jürgen Hingsen’s German decathlon record in June last year. Since Pierce LePage scored within 100…
Review: World Championships decathlon, Eugene 2022
In a field that included the Olympic champion, the world champion and the world record holder, in the home of Ashton Eaton’s first world record a decade earlier in 2012,…
Rankings Analysis: 15 February 2022
This is the first in a new weekly series of posts providing an analysis of developments in qualification for major championships, and the current world rankings for combined events. The…
Review: NCAA Lubbock, Fayetteville, Clemson and the German and Scottish championships
When Simon Ehammer and Adrianna Sułek set their respective heptathlon and pentathlon world bests of 6285 and 4569 in Clermont Ferrand on Sunday evening, their scores came at the end…