REACTION
There were three races left, so far and so close to the end but Kevin Mayer's body said stop. Mined by injuries, the French could not go after his dream. Yet first at the end of the first seven events, the reigning world champion in the discipline threw in the towel during the pole vault. The title goes to the German Niklas Kaul.
"The disappointment is huge, you have to realize that I give my life to the decathlon, I have my loved ones around me too, it's not necessarily easy to agree not to do it. not like a tennis player who makes tournaments every month I have a decathlon in the year, it's enough that I make a mistake or that I have a pain and the whole dream can stop completely. can become a hell ... Honestly, this decathlon was hell. "