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41 relations: ABC-CLIO, American football, Amphitheater High School, Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's decathlon, Athletics at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Men's decathlon, Athletics at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's decathlon, Bill Toomey, Boxing, Buzz Bissinger, Caitlyn Jenner, Decathlon, Decathlon world record progression, Drake Relays, Graceland University, Heart of America Athletic Conference, Jack Parker (decathlete), Javelin throw, Joe Louis, Kansas Relays, Lamoni, Iowa, Lou Nova, Max Baer (boxer), McFarland & Company, Milwaukee, Moorhead, Iowa, Munich massacre, Mykola Avilov, National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, Sacramento City College, San Jose, California, Simon & Schuster, Texas Relays, Tom Moore (track), Track and field, Transitioning (transgender), Tucson, Arizona, United States Olympic Trials (track and field), University of Arizona, University of California, Berkeley, University of Iowa, World War II.
ABC-CLIO
ABC-CLIO, LLC is a publishing company for academic reference works and periodicals primarily on topics such as history and social sciences for educational and public library settings.
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American football
American football, referred to as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end.
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Amphitheater High School
Amphitheater High School, also known as Amphi High, is a public high school, located in central Tucson, Arizona, United States.
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Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's decathlon
The men's decathlon event at the 1936 Olympic Games took place between August 7 & August 8.
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Athletics at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Men's decathlon
The men's decathlon combined event at the 1972 Olympic Games took place on 7 & 8 September.
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Athletics at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's decathlon
The Men's decathlon competition at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, was held at the Olympic Stadium on 29–30 July.
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Bill Toomey
William Anthony Toomey (born January 10, 1939) is a former American track and field competitor and the 1968 Olympic decathlon champion. A graduate of Worcester Academy and the University of Colorado, Toomey was named ABC's Wide World of Sports Athlete of the Year in 1968. He set the world record in the decathlon in December 1969 and received the James E. Sullivan Award as the top amateur athlete in the United States in 1969. He won 23 of the 38 decathlons he competed in, scoring over 8,000 points a dozen times. He was on the cover of the October 1969 issue of Track and Field News. A week after his world record, Toomey married Olympic gold-medal winning British athlete Mary Rand in 1969 and they had two daughters, Samantha and Sarah. They divorced after 22 years of marriage. Toomey was head coach in track and field at the University of California at Irvine in the early 1970s. Before that he worked as a television broadcaster and marketing consultant.. sports-reference.
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Boxing
Boxing is a combat sport in which two people, usually wearing protective gloves, throw punches at each other for a predetermined set of time in a boxing ring.
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Buzz Bissinger
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Caitlyn Jenner
Caitlyn Marie Jenner (born William Bruce Jenner on October 28, 1949) is an American television personality and retired Olympic gold medal-winning decathlete.
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Decathlon
The decathlon is a combined event in athletics consisting of ten track and field events.
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Decathlon world record progression
The first world record in the decathlon was recognized by the International Association of Athletics Federations in 1922.
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Drake Relays
The Drake Relays (officially the Drake Relays presented by Hy-Vee) is an outdoor track and field event held in Des Moines, Iowa, in Drake Stadium on the campus of Drake University.
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Graceland University
Graceland University is a private liberal arts university with campuses in Lamoni, Iowa and Independence, Missouri.
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Heart of America Athletic Conference
The Heart of America Athletic Conference (the Heart) is a college athletic conference affiliated with the NAIA.
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Jack Parker (decathlete)
Roger "Jack" Parker (September 27, 1915 – May 29, 1964) was an American athlete who competed mainly in the Decathlon.
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Javelin throw
The javelin throw is a track and field event where the javelin, a spear about in length, is thrown.
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Joe Louis
Joseph Louis Barrow (May 13, 1914 – April 12, 1981), best known as Joe Louis and nicknamed the "Brown Bomber", was an American professional boxer who competed from 1934 to 1951.
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Kansas Relays
The Kansas Relays are a three-day track meet every April, held at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas.
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Lamoni, Iowa
Lamoni is a city in Decatur County, Iowa, United States.
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Lou Nova
Lou Nova (March 16, 1913 – September 29, 1991) aka Cosmic punch was an American boxer and actor.
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Max Baer (boxer)
Maximilian Adelbert "Max" Baer (February 11, 1909 – November 21, 1959) was an American boxer of the 1930s (one-time Heavyweight Champion of the World) as well as a referee, and had an occasional role on film or television.
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McFarland & Company
McFarland & Company, Inc. is an independent book publisher based in Jefferson, North Carolina that specializes in academic and reference works, as well as general interest adult nonfiction.
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Milwaukee
Milwaukee is the largest city in the state of Wisconsin and the fifth-largest city in the Midwestern United States.
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Moorhead, Iowa
Moorhead is a city in Monona County, Iowa, United States.
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Munich massacre
The Munich massacre was an attack during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, in which the Palestinian terrorist group Black September took eleven Israeli Olympic team members hostage and killed them along with a German police officer.
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Mykola Avilov
Nikolay Avilov (Микола Вікторович Авілов, Николай Викторович Авилов, born 6 August 1948) is a retired Soviet decathlete (Odessa) who competed at the 1968, 1972 and 1976 Olympics.
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National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics
The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) is an athletic association that organizes college and university-level athletic programs, primarily across the United States but also outside the US.
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Sacramento City College
Sacramento City College (SCC) is a two-year community college located in Sacramento, California.
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San Jose, California
San Jose (Spanish for 'Saint Joseph'), officially the City of San José, is an economic, cultural, and political center of Silicon Valley and the largest city in Northern California.
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Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster, Inc., a subsidiary of CBS Corporation, is an American publishing company founded in New York City in 1924 by Richard Simon and Max Schuster.
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Texas Relays
The Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays are an annual track and field competition held at Mike A. Myers Stadium in Austin, Texas.
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Tom Moore (track)
Tom Moore (April 14, 1914 in Berkeley, California – May 10, 2002) was a National Track and Field Hall of Fame track and field promoter, known for his decades of service as meet director of the Modesto Relays.
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Track and field
Track and field is a sport which includes athletic contests established on the skills of running, jumping, and throwing.
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Transitioning (transgender)
Transitioning is the process of changing one's gender presentation and/or sex characteristics to accord with one's internal sense of gender identity – the idea of what it means to be a man or a woman,Brown, M. L. & Rounsley, C. A. (1996) True Selves: Understanding Transsexualism – For Families, Friends, Coworkers, and Helping Professionals Jossey-Bass: San Francisco or genderqueer (in-between).
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Tucson, Arizona
Tucson is a city and the county seat of Pima County, Arizona, United States, and home to the University of Arizona.
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United States Olympic Trials (track and field)
The United States Olympic Trials for the sport of track and field is the quadrennial meet to select the United States representatives at the Olympic Games.
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University of Arizona
The University of Arizona (also referred to as U of A, UA, or Arizona) is a public research university in Tucson, Arizona.
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University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public research university in Berkeley, California.
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University of Iowa
The University of Iowa (also known as the UI, U of I, UIowa, or simply Iowa) is a flagship public research university in Iowa City, Iowa.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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