2022 European Championships – Kevin Mayer had no illusions before the decathlon – Eurosport FR

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His decathlon came to a halt: three weeks after winning world gold, Kevin Mayer failed in his “mission impossible” to double at the European Athletics Championships by giving up in the first event after a muscular alert in his thigh, Monday in Munich (Germany). Mayer (30) had announced the color before entering the running. The unprecedented challenge of stringing together two decathlons in three weeks, and ideally world and European gold, was enticing. But he will not “take