I was expecting this article, since my Décapassion friend, Frédéric Gousset, was present during the Décastar at Talence. The article has now appeared on their blog along with superb photos.
If you have followed the event and you wish to re-live it, just follow this link. And if you have missed it, that's an even more important reason to go and visit their blog and enjoy the excellent article on the 2025 Décastar. (And don't worry if you don't know french. Today's translations are near perfect).
PS In my post on the "One-day decathlon" I talked about the idea of 4-misses-out (or 5 or 6) for the vertical jumps. In fact, the more I think about this the more I like it. It's a perfect mechanism to mitigate the no-height risk. Suppose an athlete starts at 4.80 m in pole vault and has three misses. He cannot go higher but he still can try at a lower height. If the organisers have proposed an initial height at, say, 4.40 m and increments of 10 cm afterwards he can use his remaining misses at, say, 4.50 m. If he passes, he can even try at some superior height (but still lower than the 4.80 m where he had three misses). Had such a rule been adopted early enough, the 1992 olympic title would have most probably changed owner.
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