Today the news broke from USADA that the 2022 decathlon world leader, Garrett Scantling, was provisionally suspended due to whereabouts failures, explaining his absence from the USA World Championships team…
In the small hours of Friday night (for European readers) the mighty US Championships decathlon and heptathlon got underway in Fayetteville. As the sun started to set on Sunday evening…
Pretty much every preview you will read of the combined events competitions at the World Indoor Championships in Belgrade this weekend will focus on the Olympic and World champions in…
Photos: Bilal Aouffen (Maria), USATF, UGA, Princeton, Gators A recent welcome development from World Athletics is the introduction of a “protected weekend” for national championships. It helps ensure athletes do…
This is the second 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…
What a strange path to the Olympics it has been. In any other Olympic year, after a brief respite following the major champs of the previous summer, the season is…
Two decathlons of critical importance, taking place 5000 miles apart. Like a virtual Thorpe Cup, featuring two of the titans of combined events, Germany and USA. Two men on each…
We expected 2020 to be a race for decathletes to achieve the 8350 Olympic Qualifying mark, or to rank in the top 24 in the world. We expected a World…
The Decathletes of Europe Decathlon 2021 Calendar is here! Thank you to all the photographers who provided permission to use their artwork: Ulf Schiller, Athletix.ch (Simon Ehammer) Nicolas Mennetrey (Axel…
After finishing fourth at the 2016 US Olympic trials, Garrett Scantling disappeared from decathlon. But he streaked back into the world of multi-events earlier this year, with one of the…
