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Decathletes to Get Spotlight in Millrose Games - NYTimes.com

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Matt Scherer   Jan 27th 2011, 2:56am
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Right about now, everybody in New York needs to come in from the cold.

Here are three bedraggled refugees who could surely use a warm, bright place.

They are decathletes, three of the best in the world, but they rarely feel the glow of public attention. Even at the Summer Olympics, there is usually a Michael Johnson or a Usain Bolt whooshing around the corner to captivate the crowd.

But decathletes have to live, too, and the operators of the venerable Millrose Games have invited three American stars to strut their stuff Friday night in Madison Square Garden.

“I’ve never seen officials in tuxedos,” said Ashton Eaton, 23, a gold-medal prospect for the 2012 Summer Games in London.



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