decathlete
noun/diːˈkæθliːt/UK/di-ˈkath-ˌlēt/US
Etymology
From dec- + athlete.
Definitions
An athlete who competes in the decathlon.
- Simply to see what would happen, Paul Terek, a United States decathlete, wore a baseball cap bearing his name in Japanese when he landed at the Osaka airport a few weeks ago. Some children there took the bait.
- “Heptathlon is very geared and favorable to those who are quick,” said Gray’s coach, Andy Eggerth, who trains both heptathletes and decathletes. “A lot of world-class heptathletes are relatively bad at javelin and shot-put.”
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