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Thursday, 10 July 2008

Decathlon

10 July 2008 - Phew! That was close. Very rarely do major championship decathlons serve up such a spectacular finale in the 1500m - but German Jan Felix Knobel and Eduard Mihan of Belarus take a bow. You produced a classic.

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