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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On a perfectly sunny, breezy summer day, teens may relax by the pool or hang out with friends and not think about the long school year they just finished. But not all of them. Vernon Hills High School ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Probably the last word that can be used to describe the throwing style of Fort Zumwalt West junior Dahlia Dyson is conventional.