Warner’s misstep dropped him to 18th place out of 21 men and created a point deficit too large to come back from in the decathlon’s final two events
Canada's Damian Warner competes in the men's decathlon pole vault of the athletics event at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at Stade de France in Saint-Denis, north of Paris, on August 3, 2024.In Paris on Saturday, Damian Warner was in striking distance of repeating as Olympic decathlon champion, until it fell through his fingers during the pole vault event.
But on Saturday in Paris, Warner knocked down the bar on three attempts at 4.60, resulting in zero points in that event. The man sitting in third, Norwegian Sander Skotheim did not record a height in that event either, shaking up the top of the leaderboard. It was costly for both, Skotheim plummeting to 19th, and Warner to 18th in the field of 21 men – deficits too large to overcome that late in the decathlon.
Warner had begun Day 2 of the decathlon in fourth place, confident he could rally back. It was a different scenario than he faced in Tokyo, when he had led the competition from the first event to the last, earning gold with an Olympic record 9018 points. But the veteran decathlete in his fourth Olympics was up for the challenge.
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