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 ...

Lithuania’s Mykolas Alekna smashed the men's discus throw world record, making history by becoming the first athlete ever to surpass the 75-metre mark on Sunday. The 22-year-old threw 75.56m at the ...

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 ...

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Joseph Brown never participated in a state high school championship track meet, wasn’t heavily recruited coming out of high school and didn’t attend a Division I college. However, on Wednesday the ...