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 ...

SAINT-DENIS, France — Don't look now, but Jamaica, that Caribbean island known for producing elite sprinters such as Usain Bolt and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, is now a field-event power. Former ...

Follow our Olympics coverage in the lead-up to the Paris Games. EUGENE, Ore. — Valarie Allman’s gold medal was secured. Her spot in Paris was never really in question. Whatever suspense existed in the ...

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 ...

Team USA's Valarie Allman celebrated winning the gold medal in the women’s discus throw event on Monday.

Mykolas Alekna continues to stretch the limits of what is possible in the discus throw. The 22-year-old Lithuanian, competing in his final season as a Cal athlete, twice broke his own year-old world ...

The 2016 Wharton graduate, who holds the program record in the discus throw, finished second at the 2024 United States Olympic Trials to qualify for his second straight Olympic team. For many Penn ...

April 15 (Reuters) - Performance-enhancing drugs have long been the scourge of athletics field events but now some observers are claiming "weather doping" was behind a slew of discus records at a ...

When it comes to throwing, there’s likely a perception about what the requirement for generating quality in shot put and discus entails. On the boys side, one generality may be that you must be a ...

MIDDLETOWN, N.Y. — Section II athletes represented well at the NYSPHSAA outdoor track and field championships at Middletown High School on Friday and Saturday. On Saturday in the girls Class B 4×400, ...

East Alton-Wood River grad and Olympian Jayden Ulrich, a senior at Louisville, has been named the USTFCCCA National Athlete of the Week. EA-WR grad Jayden Ulrich, who competed in the women's discus ...