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Archive Home > 2012 > August > 11 > Greatness at the Olympic games

Greatness at the Olympic games


August 11, 2012

Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt is, by his own definition, a legend. Bend’s Ashton Eaton, the decathlete, won’t even say he’s the world’s greatest athlete, a title conferred on decathlete Jim Thorpe by King Gustav V of Sweden at the 1912 Olympics. Pardon us, but we’ll take Eaton, his gold medal....

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