By Benjamin Blum, CBC SportsCanada's Damian Warner accomplished something no Canadian has done since 1988 by winning bronze in the decathlon at the Rio Olympics. https://t.co/FRhMaOgBtH —@CBCOlympicsEaton joined fellow American Bob Mathias and Brit Daley Thompson as the only men to win consecutive decathlon gold medals. Warner's bronze is Canada's second-ever decathlon medal, and the first since Dave Steen's third-place finish at the Seoul Olympics. I feel like the luckiest athlete in the world," Warner told The Canadian Press. Eaton's Canadian wife, Brianne Theisen-Eaton, won bronze in the heptathlon Saturday, for Canada's first track and field medal of the Games.

Source: CBC News August 19, 2016 01:54 UTC