End gender discrimination
in the olympics.
SIGN THE petition to allow Women TO COMPETE in the Olympic Decathlon for the first time in history at the 2028 OLYMPIC Games.
Only one Olympic event crowns the World’s Greatest Athlete. Women simply aren’t allowed to compete because of their gender.
It’s hard to imagine, but even in the year 2024, there’s no Women’s Decathlon in the Olympics.
Join Jordan Gray In demanding
the International Olympic Committee add THE Women’s Decathlon.
Today, hundreds of dedicated women decathletes around the globe are tirelessly training for their shot to make history at the 2024 Olympic Games. Jordan Gray is one of them. She holds the highest Decathlon score of any woman currently active in the sport, the American record, and the second-highest score ever for women in the world. On behalf of all female decathletes, all she wants is an equal chance to compete.
Women’s Decathlon is already in place at the highest levels of sport, including USA Track & Field and the International Association of Athletics Federations. Like many of her peers, Jordan is prepared to represent her country in the Heptathlon (seven events) at the 2024 Olympics. But she has a simple question for the International Olympic Committee: “If we’re succeeding in the 10 events of the decathlon, why aren’t we allowed to compete at the Olympics?”
Everything needed for an Olympic Women’s Decathlon is already in place for 2028. A field of amazing women decathletes stands ready to compete. The only obstacle to making Women’s Decathlon a 2028 Olympic sport is a “yes” from the IOC and president Thomas Bach.
For fairness and equality, sign the petition to demand the inclusion of Women’s Decathlon in the 2028 Summer Olympics.
Meet the Decathletes
Eva Bruce
Since I started track I always did multiple events at track meets that didn't really make sense together. (i.e. I would run the 1600 and then quickly head over to the high jump.) When I found out about the combined events I was excited to be around people who wanted to do as many events as I did! Last autumn I had the opportunity to compete in the decathlon, an event that I had wondered why women couldn't compete in, and I completed it while setting a couple personal records as well. It was a great experience and I am hooked! So I continue to train for another decathlon whenever the next opportunity arises.
My name is Maria Sartin (founder of @uncontainable.wear) and New Zealand record holder in the women’s decathlon.
I seized the opportunity to compete at the USA women’s decathlon champs last year and I am so grateful for it! Seeing women compete of all different ages was so empowering and inspiring and confirms that women are more than capable of doing 10 events!
I hope this event for women continues to grow so that more women have the opportunity to push their limits and become ‘Uncontainable’!
Cassandre Evans
I love the Decathlon because it's a complete event (I think more than the Heptathlon). This discipline includes events in which women can excel too while in the Heptathlon they are deprived of it. I started the Decathlon two years ago but I've practiced all the events for ten years. Knowing the Decathlon is not an official discipline for women motivates me to fight even harder to restore equality. There is no reason for this inequality. Women know how to face the same challenges as men. They can be very successful, but society lowers them by creating inequalities like that of the Decathlon. Use your voice for equality!
Belgian Decathlon Record Holder
Belgian Champion of the U20 Heptathlon
Belgian Champion Javelin Thrower
1x National Team Selection
http://decathletesofeurope.co.uk/interviews/cassandre-evans-decathlon-is-for-everybody/
I'm Roséva Bidois, decathlete for 1 year now and former discus thrower. I started combined events (heptathlon) because I wanted to find pleasure in a variety of disciplines, while dreading certain events that I felt were "not for me". I was wrong, because I learned to love these events that I had disregarded, and I progressed in them.
The Decathlon used to seem like the ultimate athletic event, but for me it was an insurmountable challenge. Today, I'm achieving performances I'd never have believed possible a few years ago. And I intend to keep improving. I really believe that any determined athlete, whatever their level, can try their luck at the Decathlon.
When I arrived at the combined events, I was very quickly seduced by the family atmosphere, the cohesion and the benevolence that reigns between the competitors. The more events there are in the competition, the more time you spend on the stadium with your competitors, and the more you develop sympathy and share greats moments
Finally, I'd like to end by saying that the Decathlon is the event in which an athlete can feel complete, running at all paces, throwing in rotation and glide, jumping vertically and horizontally. It's athletic versatility in its purest form.
Jordan Gray
I’ve always been the girl to question, “Why?” I’ve also always been the girl who responds, “Watch me” if I’m told I’m incapable of doing something. Since I didn’t start track and field until my senior year of high school, I wasn’t told my whole childhood that “Well, girls do 7 events and guys do 10…that’s just the way it is.” And, when I was in college, I dove into the decathlon and researched why it wasn’t offered for women. I very quickly found that it was based on nothing other than good ole’-fashioned sexism and the idea that “Women can’t handle 10 events.”
That simply wasn’t going to fly with me.
Since then, I’ve been joining forces with women around the world to make sure that the next generation of female athletes gets the chance to compete for the title of “World’s Greatest Athlete” at the Olympic Games. I hope you join us in making history!
American Decathlon Record Holder
3x Team USA in the Heptathlon
Pan American Games Bronze Medalist in the Heptathlon
“Women were Also SAid to be incapable of: running a marathon, voting, full-court basketball, owning property, pole vaulting, holding office, running a mile.
we’ve come so far and yet we’re trying to clear another hurdle, even in 2021.
— Jordan Gray
Jordan Gray holds the second-highest score for Women’s Decathlon in the world. Hear her story in her own words as she tirelessly trains for an event that doesn’t exist: Olympic Women’s Decathlon. She’s not here to replace the Heptathlon. She’s here to add the one event that will give women their fair and equal shot alongside the men.
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For fairness and equality, sign the petition to demand the inclusion of Women’s Decathlon in the 2024 Summer Olympics.
The Women's Decathlon and GRIT.
Check out Jordan’s TEDx talk to learn more.