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Since falling short of qualifying for the U.S. team in the heptathlon after a fall in the Olympic Trials before the 2020 games, Anna Hall has received regular encouraging calls from Joyner-Kersee while preparing for the 2024 Games.
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Melissa Lockard, The Athletic, 18 July 2024
In many ways, support for the decathlon and heptathlon is not trending in the right direction.
—Mark Dent, thehustle.co, 27 July 2024
Jackie Joyner-Kersee ends her brilliant heptathlon career with a victory at the Goodwill Games.
—Iliana Limón Romero, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2024
Marra wanted the Paris organizers to highlight the decathlon and heptathlon.
—Mark Dent, thehustle.co, 27 July 2024
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Melissa Lockard, The Athletic, 18 July 2024
In many ways, support for the decathlon and heptathlon is not trending in the right direction.
—Mark Dent, thehustle.co, 27 July 2024
Jackie Joyner-Kersee ends her brilliant heptathlon career with a victory at the Goodwill Games.
—Iliana Limón Romero, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2024
Marra wanted the Paris organizers to highlight the decathlon and heptathlon.
—Mark Dent, thehustle.co, 27 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for heptathlon
Noun
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Jenna Fee Feyerabend won the pentathlon, claiming firsts in the high jump and shot put plus second in the long jump and 60 meters.—
Bill Center,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
3 Mar. 2025
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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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Several new sports debuted at the 1904 Games, including boxing, freestyle wrestling, decathlon and a dumbbells event.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
23 Jan. 2025
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Tom Holland's Peter has a favorite bodega, chases bad guys through backyards, and struggles to mix superhero-ing with the academic decathlon.—
Darren Franich,
EW.com,
7 Jan. 2025
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Her travel schedule for triathlon left very little time to train specifically for cycling.—
Frederick Dreier,
Outside Online,
21 Nov. 2024
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Long Beach will host triathlon and marathon swimming.—
Ivana Saric,
Axios,
12 Aug. 2024
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Over 500 athletes from 23 nations came together to participate in the sports tournament, which added the new winter sports of alpine skiing and snowboarding, Nordic skiing, biathlon, skeleton and wheelchair curling to its lineup for the first time.—
Janine Henni,
People.com,
17 Feb. 2025
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The current edition of Invictus is the Games' seventh cycle, where the winter sports of alpine skiing, snowboarding, Nordic skiing, biathlon, skeleton and wheelchair curling have been added to the roster (in addition to Invictus' core sports) for the first time.—
Janine Henni,
People.com,
14 Feb. 2025
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Stanford lost its first-round matchup of the ACC tournament to Clemson on Wednesday, 63-46, likely putting an end to its historic streak of NCAA Tournament appearances.—
Ben Pickman,
The Athletic,
6 Mar. 2025
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Never in the history of the tournament – from the inaugural competition in 1930 to now – has there been a halftime show, but Infantino confirmed the break of tradition after speaking at a World Cup event in Dallas.—
Ben Church,
CNN,
5 Mar. 2025
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“Heptathlon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heptathlon. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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