Damian Warner's hopes of repeating as Olympic decathlon champion are over.
Canada's Damian Warner knocks the bar down as he competes in the men's pole vault in Decathlon at the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics in Paris, France on Saturday, August 3, 2024. Damian Warner's hopes of repeating as Olympic decathlon champion are over.
The 34-year-old from London, Ont., knocked the bar down on all three attempts in the pole vault to fall out of medal contention. Warner was sitting in second with 6,428 points, 72 behind Germany's Leo Neugebauer, after seven events.Warner was looking to defend his Olympic title from the Tokyo Games in 2021.Warner was looking to join American Bob Mathias , Great Britain's Daley Thompson and American Ashton Eaton as the only two-time Olympic gold medallists in the men's decathlon.
Norway's Skotheim Sander also failed to register a successful vault after entering the event in third place.
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