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= **Sports - Decathlon ** = Hi, My name is Christopher Weatherhead and I am a 3rd year marketing student at The University of Ottawa. I am very involved inside my faculty, The Telfer School of Management, however, I am also part of the GeeGee's Varsity Track and Field Team.

Everyone has a passion in fact having multiple passions makes life much more enjoyable. For me my passion is sports. I love both playing and watching them. It encompasses precision, concentration, perseverance and of course that aspect of fun which makes it so worthwhile being around. Now although I have a passion for all sports there is one that exceeds all others and for me this is Track and Field but specifically the DECATHLON!!

Picture this: The ability to choose multiple events suitable to your physical abilities and focuses. Pick from powerful short distance sprints to relaxed cardio intensive long distance races. Not much for running? Try field events ranging from long jump, high jump, throwing weights or javelins and yes even the pole vault. Can't make up your mind how about combined events? Pentathlon and Decathlon for men and Heptathlon for women. This is the opportunity to diversify your skills into several events.

My event is the Decathlon which event will be yours?

 =** RSS Feed - about.com Track & Field ** = This site is intended to get the latest headlines from the About.com Track & Field GuideSite. Everything you need to know about performances, regulations, competitors. It is all there! And of course its latest feed the top performers of Decathlon and Heptathlon of all times! rss url="http://z.about.com/6/g/trackandfield/b/rss2.xml" title="Performers of the Decade" number="3" description="true" date="true" author="true" length="80" enclosure="true"
 * ~ Decathlon Events: ||~  ||
 * **Decathlon** **(men)** || **Heptathlon (women)** ||
 * 100 meter dash || 100 m hurdles ||
 * long jump || long jump ||
 * shot-put || shot-put ||
 * high jump || high jump ||
 * 400 meter || 200 meter ||
 * 110 hurdles || javelin throw ||
 * pole vault || 800 meter ||
 * discus ||  ||
 * javelin throw ||  ||
 * 1500 meter ||  ||

=**16 days of glory- Decathlon 100m long jump **= This video does a great job at explaining the decathlon, and the importance of individual events entailed in its discipline. Before watching this video I urge you to follow my links and learn about the various running and field events contained in a decathlon. Running Events Field Events Here you will see the origination of the decathlon, as well as a little insight on the calculations used to score a decathlon History of the Decathlon

In this next link you will see how world records in regular track and field events stack up to the best performances of all time in the Decathlon, as well included there is a video from world record holder Roman Šebrle performing Decathlon World Records

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