HASTINGS, Minn. - Throwing the discus or shot put is the most technique-heavy event in track and field. A thrower has to perfect every motion from their feet to their arms to excel. Todd Levos, the ...

If you want to find a future first round talent in high school, history suggests you should look to the shot put pit to locate him. That's exactly what we did led by Cole Van Lanen. If you want to ...

SAINT-DENIS, France — The Olympic field in women's discus had three years to close the gap on Valarie Allman, and on Monday, they found out they'll need four more. Allman fouled on her first attempt, ...

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. Men's discus ...

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 took her place atop the discus world yet again. The American captured her second consecutive gold medal in discus on Monday after taking home the gold three years earlier in Tokyo ...

Mykolas Alekna, a discus thrower from Lithuania, has made headlines after smashing the oldest track and field world record in the men’s category that stood for almost 38 years. With his phenomenal ...

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Lithuanian Mykolas Alekna broke a 37-year-old world record in the men’s discus, the oldest world record in men’s track and field. Alekna, a 21-year-old junior at Cal-Berkeley, threw the four-pound ...