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Daley Thompson's Decathlon was the ninth best-selling computer game of 1985 in the United Kingdom. [5]Sinclair User gave the game a score of 8/10. [1] The game won the award for Best (Overall) Arcade Game in the Crash magazine Readers Awards 1984 [6] and was the Best Arcade-Style Game of the Year at the Golden Joystick Awards. [7]
Francis Morgan Ayodélé "Daley" Thompson, CBE (born 30 July 1958 [2]) is an English former decathlete. He won the decathlon gold medal at the Olympic Games in 1980 and 1984 , and broke the world record for the event four times.
Daley Thompson's time in the Olympic 110mH was initially recorded as 14.34, on which basis he started the final 1500m needing 4:34.8 to beat Hingsen's world record, or 4:34.9 to equal it. [3] After slowing at the end to enjoy his triumph, he finished in 4:35.0, giving a points total of 8797, one below the world record (still a new Olympic ...
Daley Thompson came first in an unprecedented eight events which as of August 2024 has not been seen before or since. The corresponding record for the Olympic Games is four (achieved most recently by Bryan Clay in 2008) and for the World Athletics Championships it is five, achieved by former world record holder Dan O'Brien (USA) in Tokyo in 1991.
Starting with Daley Thompson's Decathlon in 1984, games on the ZX Spectrum used the Speedlock protection system, which eventually included a countdown timer showing the time left to load a game. [22] On the commodore 64 Ocean added a full screen graphic to look at and some catchy music to listen to during the loading of the tape.
Eaton won his second straight Olympic decathlon gold medal, extending his reign in a sport whose champion earns the title of the world's greatest athlete. American Ashton Eaton retains decathlon title
The men's decathlon event at the 1978 Commonwealth Games was held on 7 and 8 August at the Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. [1] Daley Thompson won the gold medal by a whopping 844 points. This included winning six events including all five events on day one of the competition.
The decathlon is a combined event in athletics consisting of 10 track and field events. The word "decathlon" was formed, in analogy to the word "pentathlon", from Greek δέκα (déka, meaning "ten") and ἄθλος (áthlos, or ἄθλον, áthlon, meaning "contest" or "prize"). Events are held over two consecutive days and the winners are ...