There's never going to be a decathlon that you're going to have 10 events that your satisfied with. You're always, always going to be dissatisfied in something, and that always draws you back to try to retry that the next time you do a decathlon. It's like you go for the perfect 10.

S. He improved his pole vault by nearly 4 feet (1. 56 in the 110m hurdles.

Ashton James Eaton (born January 21 1988) is an American decathlete who holds the world record in both the decathlon and heptathlon events and is only the second decathlete (after Roman Šebrle) to break the 9000-point barrier with 9039 points. He won the gold medal while representing the United States in the decathlon at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.