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 ...

Wave a discus in front of the Durands and they get all weak in the knees. It's like leading birds with bread crumbs. Wave it and they'll follow you anywhere. They'd probably follow you even if you ...

MOORHEAD-The first time Hillary Birchem threw a discus, the experience wasn't pleasant. "I said I would never do it again," said Birchem, from Lisbon, N.D. A high school freshman at the time, Birchem ...

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 ...

Born in Leeds, Joe finished his Spanish degree in 2018 before becoming an English teacher to football (soccer) players and managers, as well as collaborating with various football media outlets in ...

"While both discus and hammer throwing involve rotating movements resulting in the throw of an object, discus throwers sometimes report dizziness, a condition never experienced by hammer throwers... A ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... BUENA VISTA, Colo.—When Mason Finley was in grade school, the McDonald’s in Salida gave out little Frisbee-style plastic discs in a promotion. That inspired ...

The discus is not like its sibling, the shot put. In the world of track and field, it is the more cerebral of the two main weight events. The shot put is largely an event of power and mass; the discus ...

Strongman Eddie Hall has spent much of his 2020 training attention on his upcoming boxing match against rival Hafthor Bjornsson, set to take place next year. But between ramping up his cardio workouts ...