Pentathlon Is a Bit of Everything, Plus Luck; Five Sports in One Day, With Countless Pitfalls

The Washington Post | August 27, 2004| | Copyright

American athlete Vaho Iagorashvili was rubbing the sore spot on his right chest where the German fencer had crashed into him at the start of the modern pentathlon eight hours earlier.

He had a single bead of sweat trickling down his left temple, a half-hour after his 40-year-old legs had failed him in the 3,000- meter cross-country segment.

And since he had tumbled from fourth place to ninth in the final standings of the daylong men's competition Thursday, and because this was his farewell to pentathlon, he wanted to get on the bus.

But, he paused to say, it was a magnificent sport. It ...

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