PARIS, France — Discus throw is one of the premier track and field events held every four years at the Summer Olympics. In the discus throw, athletes hurl a metal disc-shaped object as far as they can ...

PORTLAND, Oregon — While you watch your favorite athletes go for gold, consider how all that time, distance, and height is achieved by balancing the same forces all of us mere mortals experience every ...

The throwing events —shot put, discus, hammer, javelin—are old. Really, really old. In this year’s games, athletes threw the shot in Olympia, on the same site where athletes tested their strength ...

"While both discus and hammer throwing involve rotating movements resulting in the throw of an object, discus throwers sometimes report dizziness, a condition never experienced by hammer throwers... A ...

CALN – As Upper Darby’s Kayla Thorpe went through her final practice for the District 1 Track & Field championships last Thursday, the junior thrower did not like her odds of medaling in the shot put, ...

One of the world’s oldest sports still being played, the discus throw involves tossing a heavy disc as far as you can. It may sound simple, but technique, form and strength all come into play when ...

GENERAL SANTOS CITY – Bago City’s Divine Andrea Pablito has dreams of becoming a policeman or perhaps a sugarcane farmer in ...

It is said that hard work and dedication leads to success. Liberty’s Dominick Cangemi is a prime example. Although thought of as undersized, Cangemi has excelled at the discus and done well in the ...

Tanner Smith loves the finesse involved in field events. Saturday at the Frank Woodburn Invitational at Stocker Stadium, the Palisade High School thrower finished second in the discus with a toss of ...

Everyone’s heard the saying: “Better late than never.” You’d be hard-pressed to find a better real-life example of that than Dunnellon’s Winston Sanders. The soon-to-be Eastern University Eagle went ...