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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Power and athleticism combined with a graceful elegance, as good as gold: that's how best to describe the great U.S. Olympic discus thrower Valarie Allman. She has been one of the brightest stars on ...

One spectator approached Amy Bilmanis's father at a July track meet and said her discus-throwing technique was so graceful, it looked like she was dancing. At the Future Champions track camp in July ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Norton junior Morgan Hallett knew her fifth throw of the discus at the 2023 OHSAA Division II state track and field meet at Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium on Friday was a good one. She ...

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 ...

Arizona State's Jorinde van Klinken competed unattached last week at two meets in Tucson, hoping for an Olympic qualifying mark in discus. She needed a throw of 63.50 meters (208 feet-4 inches), not ...