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 ...

Hempfield’s Wilder Long learned that at Saturday’s Lancaster-Lebanon League track and field championships, and overcame the ...

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 ...

It has already been an all-time great track and field season for Alexandria sophomore thrower Ian Canfield. He broke his ...

On June 6, 1986, Juergen Schult set the world discus record at a meet in East Germany, reaching 74.08 meters. Nearly three months later, Yuriy Sedykh did the same for the hammer throw, setting the new ...

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 ...

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 ...

The postseason is ran a little differently than the regular season in track and field. Events are run on a particular time ...

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Multi-sport athlete Lawrence Okoye is hoping to be competitive in Olympic discus this week. The British athlete has played rugby, American football, and track and field. He said discus throwers are ...