Andrei Krauchanka produced a career ‐defining 8553 ‐point victory at the Talence Decastar decathlon, one of the highest scores in meeting history, defeating a world ‐class field that included Maurice Smith, Aleksei Drozdov and
Bulgarian men’s decathlon had its glory days and its great heroes. But those proud traditions were lost somewhere in the past. Who knows – maybe one day a new prodigy will emerge to revive what has been long forgotten.