That is when the crowd really lifted me. That last 600 meters I was not running with my own legs. It was incredible.

S. He improved his pole vault by nearly 4 feet (1. 56 in the 110m hurdles.

Ashton James Eaton (born January 21 1988) is an American decathlete who holds the world record in both the decathlon and heptathlon events and is only the second decathlete (after Roman Šebrle) to break the 9000-point barrier with 9039 points. He won the gold medal while representing the United States in the decathlon at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.