EUGENE, Ore. (AP) Reigning Olympic decathlon gold medalist Bryan Clay won't defend his title in London after he stumbled in the 110-meter hurdles at the U.S. track trials Saturday. Clay was ...

The Olympic decathlon, consisting of 10 track and field events, is spread over two grueling days with five events each day. The Olympic champion is traditionally given the title “World’s Greatest ...

Former Texas track and field standout Leo Neugebauer won silver in the decathlon — arguably the most difficult individual Olympic sport — on Saturday. Neugebauer ― who entered the 2024 Paris Olympics ...

Bryan Clay set an Olympic best in the decathlon discus today to widen his lead in a bid to become the first American since 1996 to win the Olympic gold medal and earn the title of "world's greatest ...

Jim Thorpe, stripped of his 1912 gold medals because he'd been paid to play minor league baseball, was reinstated Thursday as the sole winner of that year's Olympic decathlon and pentathlon by the ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Rafer Johnson, who won the decathlon at the 1960 Rome Olympics and helped subdue Robert F. Kennedy's assassin in 1968, died Wednesday. He was 86. He died at his home in the Sherman ...