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 ...

Valarie Allman quickly made headlines after winning the gold medal in the women’s discus throw at the 2024 Paris Olympics. The 29-year-old athlete achieved a distance of 69.50 meters, putting her in ...

DES MOINES — Winning a state championship is hard. Defending a state title can be even harder. Unless you're Delilah Subsin, who clinched her second straight win in the Class 4A girls discus throw on ...

Here’s a recent Olympics story via the Associated Press: SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — One of America’s very best in the medieval-looking pursuit of hammer throw thought she had seen it all when it came ...

With hair sprouting from the top of his visor, gold glinting from his ears and Squidward socks on his feet, Joseph Brown is fairly recognizable from the discus ring. But for the U.S. Olympic Track and ...

The Nixa standout continues rewriting records, dominating both the shot put and discus while eyeing even bigger throws — and an NFL future Nixa junior Jackson Cantwell holds two of the best high ...