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 ...

PARIS, Aug 5 (Reuters) - Lithuania's world record-holder Mykolas Alekna showed he is the man to beat in the men's discus at the Paris Olympics after his leading throw in Monday's preliminary round.

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 ...

SAINT-DENIS, France − Team USA women's discus thrower Veronica Fraley let it fly in the right frame of mind Friday, but it didn't fly quite far enough. Fraley's best throw among three went 62.54 ...

PARIS, France — Team USA discus thrower Valarie Allman added another gold medal to her collection on Monday with a win in women's discus at the Summer Olympics in Paris. Allman fouled on her first ...

Jayden Ulrich, with a single throw, has placed her name into serious contention for a spot on the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Team. Ulrich, a junior at the University of Louisville and an East ...

The athlete has competed in back-to-back Olympics and is currently dating her coach. Learn all about Valarie, her career and more, here. Valarie Allman quickly made headlines after winning the gold ...

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 ...

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 ...

LA CROSSE - Just a short while after launching the second-longest discus throw in the history of U.S. high school athletics at the Stratford regional, Marathon thrower Chris Marcell has once again ...