Tears of the Kingdom coach recreates the Olympic decathlon in Hyrule to force Link to compete and find out if Zelda's hero could take home the gold

Link's list of accolades includes saving Hyrule countless times over, defeating evil incarnate, and even getting involved in local elections around Hateno village. Now, YouTuber Windowledge has challenged The Legend of Zelda's fabled hero Link to the ultimate test of fitness: could Link win an Olympic gold medal in the decathlon? 

With the Summer 2024 Olympics behind us, the world is now looking to Link to see if he could beat the gold medal times across the 10 events of a decathlon recreated inside of Tears of the Kingdom. Coordinates found at the bottom of the minimap were used to roughly estimate the distance for events like the 100 meter dash. Windowledge would then use these indicators to reference Link's times against those of Olympic gold medalists to determine if our fated Hyrule hero was up to the task. 

For this challenge, It was important to not give Link any performance-enhancing drugs, so Windowledge ensured no elixirs or additional potions were used to juice the stats. The only bonus Link was allowed was that of a good night's rest, which gives you a small bonus stamina wheel. Nothing is stopping Olympic athletes from getting their eight hours of rest, except maybe those cardboard beds in the Olympic village. 

As it turns out, Tears of the Kingdom's sandbox approach to gameplay allows for a pretty smooth decathlon setup. Using a clever combination of boxes and some ingenuity with Ultrahand, Windowledge created a solid Olympic games arena that could give Paris 2024 a run for its money.

The Lomei Labyrinth was home to most of the events as it offered a nice flat runway for the 100- and 400-meter dash. Its floor grid pattern also serves as another marker to help track distance, with one floor block being roughly five meters.

Unfortunately, Link is not very fast, as sprinting using a fully maxed stamina wheel and the sleep bonus bar only gives him a 100-meter dash time of 12.7 seconds, which is roughly two and a half seconds slower than the decathlon first