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Decathlon's former logo. Founded by Michel Leclercq in 1976, Decathlon started with a store in Lille, France. [9] Its holding company was formerly known as Oxylane. [10]The company expanded abroad a decade later: to Germany in 1986, [11] Spain in 1992, [11] [12] Italy in 1993, [11] [citation needed] Belgium in 1997, [13] Portugal, the United Kingdom in 1999, Brazil in 2001, mainland China in ...
The icosathlon, also called double decathlon, is an ultra combined events of track and field competition consisting of 20 events. The word "icosathlon" was formed, in analogy to the word " decathlon ", from Greek εἴκοσι ( eíkosi , meaning "twenty") and ἄθλος ( áthlos , or ἄθλον, áthlon , meaning "contest" or “prize”).
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").
While a student at Plainfield High School, Campbell won a place on the 1952 Olympic team in the decathlon. Although just 18 years old, Campbell finished second to Bob Mathias in the decathlon. [6] Campbell set New Jersey state records in the high and low hurdles and in the high jump, and scored 140 points as fullback in football.
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]
Tomáš Dvořák (Czech pronunciation: [ˈtomaːʃ ˈdvor̝aːk]), born 11 May 1972 in Gottwaldov (now Zlín), Czechoslovakia, is an athlete from the Czech Republic.He competed in the decathlon and heptathlon for the team Dukla Prague.
The Men's decathlon competition at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, was held at the Olympic Stadium on 29–30 July. [2] Competition format.
Electron micrograph of in vitro–formed COPI-coated vesicles. Average vesicle diameter at the membrane level is 60 nm. COPI is a coatomer, a protein complex [1] that coats vesicles transporting proteins from the cis end of the Golgi complex back to the rough endoplasmic reticulum (ER), where they were originally synthesized, and between Golgi compartments.