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, France (NEXSTAR) — Team USA’s Valarie Allman struck gold again in women’s discus throwing 69.50m. That makes back to back gold for Allman, previously winning gold in the 2021 Tokyo Games.

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 ...

Track and field will never fail to surprise its fans: a sport full of tiny details, where the smallest of margins separates moments of glory from those of agony and heartache. Jamaican discus thrower ...

Valarie Allman competes in the women's discus during the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials at Hayward Field in Eugene.The women's discus during the U.S. Track and Field Trials at Hayward Field in ...

Jamaica College’s (JC) JOSEPH Salmon, who smashed the Class One discus record at the PureWater/R Danny Williams/JC meet but ...

SAINT-DENIS, France — Don't look now, but Jamaica, that Caribbean island known for producing elite sprinters such as Usain Bolt and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, is now a field-event power. Former ...

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 ...

Nearly a year ago, 2021 Penn graduate Ashley Anumba wrote her goal to become an Olympian. And now, almost a year later, Anumba has officially crossed that goal off her checklist. Anumba stepped out ...

A University of Pennsylvania graduate just missed out on advancing in men's discus on Day 10 of the Olympic Games.Sam Mattis competed in the Group A qualifier. The top 6 throwers advanced. Mattis came ...

Zach Oliva saw the Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays as a chance to show what he could do in discus throwing. Being in that spotlight with some of the top discus throwers made for a tense atmosphere, but ...