Eaton, pushed by Mayer, extends Olympic decathlon dominance

American Ashton Eaton equalled the Olympic record when retaining his decathlon crown on Thursday, but he was pushed all the way by France's Kevin Mayer. Eaton amassed 8,893 points in the gruelling 10-discipline event to tie the Czech Republic's Roman Sebrle record set at the 2004 Athens Games. The American joined an elite pantheon of decathlon greats who have won back-to-back Olympic golds, Bob Mathias (1948, 1952) and Daley Thompson (1980, 1984) the other two to have achieved the feat.