DECA Newsletter # 36 offers comments and results of the 26th Thorpe Cup (USA vs Germany) decathlon from Filderstadt-Bernhausen where teenager Andreas Bechmann put together a nifty 8132 score to lead Team Zehnkampf to its 9th team win over America in the past ten years. Groan! The next action for American decathletes comes in two weeks at the IAAF world championships in Doha, Qatar......Solomon Simmons and the Williamses-Harrison and Devon- will start. Download VolumeXXXIVNo.36 September(1) 2019