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I’ll guess Discus Throw cuz it looks hard.

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I say farthest off is pole vault and closest is 400 meters

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I’d guess one of the ‘throwing’ things…javelin or shot put.

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Farthest: shot put
Closest: 100m

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To the people who answered only one question, we will assume you are answering the first question.

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Y’all must be talkin’ bout them high falutin’ games what’s on the talkin’ picher box.

Imma say, 100M hurdles farthest, and 100M closest.

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The 100 meter dash times for some of these decathletes are really outstanding so I’d have to say 100 meter is the closest

Shot put is probably the furthest away because you’d have to be really massive to get close to the record .. and that would cause problems in about 7 other events where you have to be normal sized to do well

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100 meters dash

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100 meter dash is closest

1500 meter run is farthest

I only say this because of the order of events.

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@ Callmelenne

I like your logic better than mine……

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Sorry, I meant Discus Throw for biggest gap between Decathalon event record and Discus Throw event record.

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Closest: Pole Vault (I’m thinkin Dan and Dave)

Fartherst: 400M (I’m thinkin Michael Johnson)

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I’m going to say long jump is the furthest away from the world record holder. (mostly because of the video posted about Bob Beamon)

I’m going to say Javelin is the closest to the real world record holder.

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D’oh!
My answer… ‘javelin or shot put’ was for the closest to the record.
I’d say the 100m for the furthest.

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Closest – pole vault
Longest – 1500m

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Since most Decathlon champs are white, ergo they can’t jump and can’t run, I’d say either the hurdles or 100m are furthest from world record with more emphasis on the shortest dash, so 100m.

I’ll go pole vault closest. White guys can pole vault. Are we talking %’s?

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Like Maudie said, how do you determine if 1 second in the 100m is further from the record than 1 foot is in the pole vault? Do you convert it to %?

But anyway, closest – 400m; furthest – 100m hurdles.

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Funny, Mudjuice, I like your logic too. They are exhausted by the end of the competition. I think that’s why the distance race is last; to truly test their mettle. So the times would really suffer.

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I almost picked the 100m as the closest, until Usain Bolt moved the bar.

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pole vault and closest is discus

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For furthest away, I’ll have to say one of the throwing events: shot put, discus, javelin. I’ll pick javelin because it’s the 9th discipline and the contestants are probably worn out.

As for the closest, I’ll choose the 110m hurdles (it’s not 100m but 110m for hurdles). Those hurdles will slow down everybody so I think the separation is compressed and closer.

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I don’t have a clue about the Olympic record holders, but I do know if a lying, cheating, stealing, etc. decathlon was held, the occupier of the WH would have equal competition with Holder, Pelousy, Reid and the ilk, and they would all have to share the gold.

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Stranded came closest to the winning answers.

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Woo-HOO! I won! (Sort of)

Does that mean I get to pick the next U.S. President?

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yep.

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Discus throw? They throw FISH? What the fuck?

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Is there a site where all the differences are shown? I’d be curious to see how all the sports lined-up and to see how the differences worked out as a percentage of the record.

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The link is at the bottom of the post

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