For a working title heading into the national decathlon championships today and Thursday at Edwards Stadium in Berkeley, how about "The Old Man and the See?" That is, people want to see what old man ...

16 May 1992: US DECATHLETES DAN O’'BRIEN AND DAVE JOHNSON AT THE MODESTO RELAYS IN MODESTO, CALIFORNIA. Getty Images Dan O’Brien finished 42nd overall (and second in his age group) in the RBC ...

16 May 1992: US DECATHLETES DAN O’'BRIEN AND DAVE JOHNSON AT THE MODESTO RELAYS IN MODESTO, CALIFORNIA. Getty Images Dan & Dave are back. Dan O’Brien and Dave Johnson, who were the focus of a Reebok ...

After a six-month Reebok mass media campaign called “Dan and Dave”, featuring Olympic decathlon hopefuls Dan O'Brien and Dave Johnson, O’Brien fails in the pole vault and is eliminated at the U.S.

BERKELEY, Calif. -- For four events, Dan O'Brien showed flashes of the past, when he ruled the decathlon. Then, all of a sudden, O'Brien's body reminded him that he's 35 years old. O'Brien's comeback ...

PHOENIX — Former Olympic decathlon champion Dan O’Brien retired Thursday after a pelvic injury ended his comeback plans. “I am officially done with the decathlon,” said O’Brien, who won the decathlon ...

NEW YORKNEW YORK — Decathlon champion Dan O’Brien hopes to hopscotch his way to a record with New York City schoolchildren. The 42-year-old O’Brien will try Thursday to break the Guinness World Record ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Dan is no longer to be confused with Dave. Just ask Dave. “Dan is doing so well, he’s head and shoulders above everyone else right now,” said Dave Johnson, a 1992 Olympic bronze ...

Given his stature in the sport, the tendency is to praise Dan O'Brien, not to bury him. After his performance Wednesday on the first day of the decathlon, the latter option seems to be more realistic.

The point of this little exercise isn't to test your decathlon knowledge, or even your Olympic wisdom. The point is to see how important the decathlon is these days. There was a time — and it doesn't ...