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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The Decathlon
Olympic Decathlon was created in 1980.
Olympic Decathlon happened in 1981.
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