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 ...

The discus throw requires a comprehensive understanding of its principles, emphasizing the importance of twist, torque, and centrifugal force. Athletes must develop a systematic approach to improve ...

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 ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

SIOUX CITY -- Kingsley native Kiana Phelps threw the discus farther than any girl in Iowa high school history, and for a third year is on a University of Oregon track team that usually ranks near the ...

Tom Anderson and Maggie Ewen are smashing shot put and discus records this spring while rendering some schools' throwing spaces obsolete.Anderson, a senior at Andover who claimed the boys' shot put ...