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  1.                                  In 1948, Bob Mathias 
  2.                                  became the youngest 
  3.                                  person ever to win the 
  4.                                  Olympic decathlon. He 
  5.                                  was just 17 years old. 
  6.  
  7. Before qualifying for his first Olympics, Bob 
  8. had won the national decathlon champion-
  9. ship. Not bad for someone who, just three
  10. months earlier, had never pole-vaulted,
  11. thrown a javelin, long-jumped, or run a
  12. 1,500-meter race! (The decathlon consists of
  13. 10 events: the other six are the 100-meter
  14. dash, 110-meter hurdles, 400-meter run,
  15. shot put, discus throw, and high jump. The
  16. winner of the Olympic decathlon is usually
  17. considered the worldΓÇÖs greatest athlete.)
  18.  
  19. Bob set another world record in 1952,