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Marra wanted the Paris organizers to highlight the decathlon and heptathlon.
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Mark Dent, thehustle.co, 27 July 2024
Hall, of Greenwood Village, is making her Olympic debut after winning the heptathlon at the same event.
—Esteban L. Hernandez, Axios, 4 Aug. 2024
His father, Greg Duplantis, was a professional pole vaulter competing for the United States, while his mother, Helena, competed in heptathlon for Sweden.
—George Ramsay, CNN, 6 Aug. 2024
Other finals are the men’s 400 hurdles, women’s 400, women’s 10,000 meters, women’s shot put, men’s triple jump and women’s heptathlon.
—John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2024
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Mark Dent, thehustle.co, 27 July 2024
Hall, of Greenwood Village, is making her Olympic debut after winning the heptathlon at the same event.
—Esteban L. Hernandez, Axios, 4 Aug. 2024
His father, Greg Duplantis, was a professional pole vaulter competing for the United States, while his mother, Helena, competed in heptathlon for Sweden.
—George Ramsay, CNN, 6 Aug. 2024
Other finals are the men’s 400 hurdles, women’s 400, women’s 10,000 meters, women’s shot put, men’s triple jump and women’s heptathlon.
—John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for heptathlon
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The Meet of Champions pentathlon champion (3,378) also placed fourth in New Englands with a 14.81 in the 100-meter hurdles.Brian Roach, Boston Herald, 19 July 2024
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The game is a six-legged pentathlon that takes place on a rainbow track.Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 26 Dec. 2024
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In many ways, support for the decathlon and heptathlon is not trending in the right direction.Mark Dent, thehustle.co, 27 July 2024
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Grenada: The island nation in the eastern Caribbean needed just six athletes to win a medal, taking bronze in the men’s decathlon for an average of 0.1667 medals per athlete.Mark Puleo and John Bradford, The Athletic, 6 Aug. 2024
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Who's winning the AI race Competition in AI is less a single race than a triathlon: There's a face-off to develop the most advanced generative AI foundation models; a battle to win customers by making AI useful; and a struggle to build costly infrastructure that makes the first two goals possible.Ina Fried, Axios, 11 Dec. 2024
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And as a veteran triathlon journalist, Culp has particularly good access and insights into that world.Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 2 Dec. 2024
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Two male coaches and a former men's biathlon team member confirmed the culture of misogyny described by the women, who reported facing retaliation after speaking out.Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 12 Dec. 2024
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In 2023, the Games traveled to Dusseldorf, Germany and will head to both Vancouver and Whistler, Canada from Feb. 8 to 16, 2025 — the first time winter sports like alpine skiing, snowboarding, biathlon, Nordic skiing, skeleton and wheelchair curling will be introduced to the Games.Rachel Burchfield, People.com, 20 Nov. 2024
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The league also is holding a 1-on-1 tournament in February and the winner will be paid $250,000.Doug Feinberg, Orlando Sentinel, 16 Jan. 2025
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For Medvedev, defeat against Tien marks his earliest exit from the Australian Open since 2018, having finished runner-up at three of the last four tournaments.George Ramsay, CNN, 16 Jan. 2025
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“Heptathlon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heptathlon. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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