PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — His gold medal was nice. His wife’s meant even more.
Ashton Eaton told the hometown crowd that and drew quite a few “Ahhs.” Then again, he did win in what amounted to a landslide.
Lately, though, when doesn’t he?
Eaton earned his third straight heptathlon title at the World Indoor Track and Field Cchampionships Saturday night, taking all the suspense out of the competition with another dominating performance.
The only real drama left was whether he could break his indoor world mark, but an exhausted Eaton didn’t have a burst in the 1000m, the final event of seven.