The pentathlon lost a test

The pentathlon was introduced in 1912, thanks to Baron Pierre de Coubertin as a combination of five individual events: pistol shooting, fencing, swimming, riding and race across the fields, which had to do in one day. Now, to achieve sustained in the Olympics, the pentathlon has lost a test.

Tire and career will be combined into one. If before the shot was somewhat quiet, where the concentration pimaba now both disciplines will be combined into one. Shooting (hit five targets or 70 seconds), running a mile, shoot, run another mile, shoot and run another mile. Three laps of a circuit. All this comes from that the IOC had been raised to eliminate the modern pentathlon in the Olympic program since it is difficult for viewers to follow. For example, in Beijing, the test men took 12 hours to complete, in three different scenarios.

However, the pentathlon will be called, at least for now, modern pentathlon, which was most criticized by the Swedes to the Greeks (the original creators of the test) in the vote that received the most positive votes of two thirds parts of the camera.

There has been criticism of the measure. A U.S. athlete has already said that this is not a pentathlon, criticizing five tests that were previously completely individual. It's like a trilogy to do in two books, or draw a rectangle with three sides.

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