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• Modern Pentathlon
  The modern pentathlon has 5 parts: 800 meters horseriding, swordfencing, pistoleshooting 25 meters, 300 meters free stroke swimming and a 4km crosscountrywalk. That order is at each Olympics the same.The points the participants can get was for 1956, ...
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• Abc Online News Sports Modern Pentathlon
  The pentathlon, whether modern or ancient, has always been designed as a soldiers’ event.It was introduced to the ancient Olympics in the eighth century BC after the Spartans complained that too many Olympic events favoured civilians and did nothing ...
  http://www.abc.net.au/news/olympics/sports/pentathlon.htm