📚 noun • entry_id 39143
pentathlon
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pentatlón
An ancient athletics discipline, featuring five events: stadion, wrestling, long jump, javelin and discus
pentatlón
Ellipsis of modern pentathlon, a discipline with five events based on late-19th century basic military skills.
Dwindling interest and a reputation for being outdated couldn’t change modern pentathlon. A brief video clip of a coach punching a horse at the Tokyo Olympics has altered it foreve…
In the end, why not be happy with both, with the BMXes and the pentathlons, with the swans of synchro and the Quasimodos of wrestling? Sweet.
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