(AP) Milt Campbell, who became the first African-American to win the Olympic decathlon in 1956 and went on to play professional football and become a motivational speaker, has died after a battle with ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rafer Johnson, who won the decathlon at the 1960 Rome Olympics and helped subdue Robert F. Kennedy's assassin in 1968, has died. He was 86. Family friend Michael Roth says Johnson ...

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 ...

RIO DE JANEIRO -- Ashton Eaton won his second straight Olympic decathlon gold medal on Thursday after finishing third in the last event -- the 1,500 meters. He becomes just the third athlete to win ...

Olympic decathlon gold medalist Markus Rooth of Norway will miss next month's World Track and Field Championships after landing outside the pole vault mat in practice. Rooth, 23, posted that he ...

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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 ...

(AP) Milt Campbell, who became the first African-American to win the Olympic decathlon in 1956 and went on to play pro football and become a motivational speaker, has died, his family said. He was 78.