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Olympics in Rio - Decathlon at the end of day one
Olympics in Rio - Decathlon at the end of day one (0)
Ashton Eaton can still break the Olympic record from Roman Šebrle (8893)
Making the sum of this first Olympic day plus the best points result ever for a second day gives us the following list:
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Mihail Dudas |
8963 8736 8688 8553 8505 8494 8473 8366 8297 8290 8285 8278 8262 8254 8254 8240 8232 8135 8093 8074 8066 7985 7918 7851 7801 7788 |
Only if Eatons second day gets over 4425 points he can break the world record with 1 point. (Eatons pb total for the second day is the highest in the world: 4600 points.) With personal Bests Kevin does 8932 and Damian 8873 (for the same scenario).
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