A national record under his belt, Tejaswin Shankar spoke during the Asian Games recently about how the decathlon was not just an event but an entire experience that tests yourself both mentally and physically. He also spoke about how the 8000-point mark was a challenge he was yet to complete.
As the only person to go far beyond that and cross the 9,000-point mark twice — and one of only three men to ever do it — Ashton Eaton makes it sound simple. “I would say ‘do another one, try again’. But that’s the truth, because you improve so much every time you do a decathlon that by the time you do another, you are so much better,” Eaton told The Hindu during an interaction on Thursday.
