Carl Flinton was just doing the basics when he began throwing the discus as a freshman. And as Flinton went through that ...

Nuhfer, a Penn State commit, threw a 177-0 to win her first Penn Relays championship on Thursday at the Irving “Moon” ...

Cardinal’s Max Soltis’ senior year of high school athletics was in danger of being over before it even started after having surgery over the summer to repair his right ACL and meniscus. But 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 ...

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 ...

Olympic track and field athletes, including world record-setting discus thrower Mykolas Alekna, are competing in Paris this week. Alekna’s journey included a stop in Ramona, Oklahoma, where he set the ...

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 ...

Stanford University graduate Valarie Allman became the back-to-back Olympic champion in the women's discus throw Monday. Allman grabbed the gold medal at the Paris Olympics with a throw of 69.50 ...

Old Tappan senior Layla Giordano said someone sent her the Meet of Champions discus record before Wednesday’s Meet of Champions. Giordano set her sights on beating the record, which was set by former ...

Lithuanian discus thrower Mykolas Alekna broke a world record that had stood for four decades at the Oklahoma Throws Series World Invitational meeting in Ramona on Sunday. The Lithuanian’s throw of 74 ...

RAMONA, Okla. (AP) — Mykolas Alekna of Lithuania broke a world record in the discus throw that had stood since 1986 on Sunday at the Oklahoma Throws Series competition. Alekna's throw of 243 feet, 11 ...