Pentathlon Olympics 2016 How To Train For Modern Pentathlon Nbc Olympics

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Decathlon meaning german. The home of olympics on bbc sport online. The modern pentathlon simulates the experience of a 19th century cavalry. All the best photo and video highlights of swimming at the rio 2016 summer games olympics plus official results and medals by event and athlete.

Jogos olimpicos de verao de 2016 officially known as the games of the xxxi olympiad portuguese. Includes the latest news stories results fixtures video and audio. Modern pentathlon is a sports contest created especially for the summer olympic games by the founder of the modern games baron pierre de coubertin and was first contested in 1912coubertin was inspired by the pentathlon event in ancient olympic games which was modeled after the skills of the ideal soldier at the time.

Even though these events occur every four years the summer and winter events are staggered so that theres an olympic event every two years the summer olympics are held every leap year 2000 2004 2008 and the winter olympics. Javascript must be enabled for the correct page display. All the best photo and video highlights of athletics at the rio 2016 summer games olympics plus official results and medals by event and athlete.