The Planet's Most Athletic Couple

Published by The Oregonian on April 1, 2015

The world's most athletic couple is not satisfied.

Not with medals. Not with records. Not after standing on the award stand wrapped in a flag.

Ashton Eaton and Brianne Theisen-Eaton can be better. They know it. Technique can improve. The jump can go longer or higher. The throw can travel farther.

At the top of their profession, they are relentlessly focused on staying there through the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

On this cool, sunny day recently on the Hayward Field infield, Eaton is fuming about the discus. 

Eaton won 2012 Olympic gold in the decathlon. He set the decathlon world record of 9,039 points at the 2012 U.S. Olympic trials.