A decathlon consists of 10 track and field events
A decathlon is always ten events. If you take out the discus throw, then you have nine events.
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Olympic Decathlon was created in 1980.
Olympic Decathlon happened in 1981.
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The Decathlon
Track and field athletics in the following events, javelin, decathlon, heptathlon.
"Deca" means "ten" so in the Olympic Decathlon there are 10 events. Similarly "penta" means "five" so a Pentathlon has 5 events.
the prefix "dec" means ten, so i would say that an athlete participates in ten different events.
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it depends every year