Before I go out on a limb and say that this could be our best Decathlon team sent to the Olympics ever! While it certainly is a great assembly of athletes, we need to take a look at the previous OT's and compare. Here are the top 3 finishers from 2008 back to 1976 with Bruce Jenner (now featured on the E Channel). 2008Brian Clay8832 Trey Hardee8534 Tom Pappas85112004Brian Clay8660 Tom Pappas8517 [...]

Two days ago, I posted about a recent article in the Wall Street Journal that surprisingly featured 3 track athletes in its Top 10 (including Decathlete Roman Sebrle at number 1). Today, in some rare down time at the USATF Jr. Nationals I saw a related article that had a pretty interesting video of Bryan Clay going through the SPARQ testing protocol. The premise is that most athletes only do one o [...]

Bryan Clay throwing the DiscusI was looking over the results from the USA NationalChampionships again and of all the great performances one of the mostamazing is perhaps also the most easily overlooked. Bryan Clay, OlympicSilver Medalist in the 2004 Decathlon set a world record in thedecathlon discus. The decathlon discus you say? Who cares about that?Well consider for a moment the magnitude of Cl [...]