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Neeraj Chopra competing at the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games

Heptathlon champion Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Daley Thompson at the Moscow 1980 Olympic Games

Ancient Olympic Games

See a comparative study of four Olympic hurling objects - the hammer, the javelin, the discus, and the shot put

Study a side-view demonstration of a track-and-field athlete throwing a javelin

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decathlon heptathlon ancient Olympic Games athletics pole vault weight throw hammer throw shot put long jump discus throw pentathlon high jump triple jump running

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Babe Didrikson Zaharias

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

American athlete

Eric Lemming

Swedish athlete

Ruth Fuchs

Ruth Fuchs

German athlete

Neeraj Chopra

Neeraj Chopra

Indian athlete

Arshad Nadeem aiming for gold

Arshad Nadeem

Pakistani track-and-field athlete

Olympic gold medal winner Liu Shiying

Liu Shiying

Chinese track-and-field athlete

Galina Zybina

Galina Zybina

Soviet athlete

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