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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CALN – As Upper Darby’s Kayla Thorpe went through her final practice for the District 1 Track & Field championships last Thursday, the junior thrower did not like her odds of medaling in the shot put, ...

The throwing events —shot put, discus, hammer, javelin—are old. Really, really old. In this year’s games, athletes threw the shot in Olympia, on the same site where athletes tested their strength ...

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 ...

The athletics is in full swing at the Olympics at the moment including the discus. Take a leaf out of the Olympian’s book and try SmartCompany’s Olympic challenge for today – spin around with a 360 ...