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Here is an interview with successful businessman Alex Folacci

20 years Decathlon 2000... and who’s responsible for the joy it gave us? An open letter!

Johannes Erm - NCAA champion and European U23 silver medallist

One of the most exciting and unpredicted event of athletic program of XX Olympic Games in Munich 1972 was the women’s Pentathlon. The people of the host country – West Germany – were keen to see the second victory of their local hero …

Excellent GDR athletes, thrilling battle for second spot

It has been a long time since a Swiss man exceeded 8000 points for decathlon. It was in 2003, to be exact, when Rolf Schläfli achieved 8019 in Götzis and became only the 5th man ever over 8000.

Interview with Colombian decathlon record holder José Gregorio Lemos (7913p, Barranquilla 2018)

A lesson in just one aspect of how sport science can and needs to be applied to all athletic skill teaching

Stories From the Passenger Seat: Lessons Learned From a Lifetime of Coaching by Harry Marra

A double victory by the GDR athletes Uwe Freimuth and Thorsten Voss