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"Boyd Speerschneider" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> True, but you could say that about any sport, cycling in particular. Heck, the best athlete may
> not have participated in sports at all. But that's neither here nor there. My point was that the
> decathalon is set up as a competition that identifies and rewards the best all around athlete in
> any given era... so it makes an appropriate measuring stick.
If 99% of all athletes don't ever do the decathlon, how can you consider only decathletes?
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> True, but you could say that about any sport, cycling in particular. Heck, the best athlete may
> not have participated in sports at all. But that's neither here nor there. My point was that the
> decathalon is set up as a competition that identifies and rewards the best all around athlete in
> any given era... so it makes an appropriate measuring stick.
If 99% of all athletes don't ever do the decathlon, how can you consider only decathletes?