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 ...

Team USA's Valarie Allman celebrated winning the gold medal in the women’s discus throw event on Monday.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... On the doorstep of history, Valarie Allman can throw herself into uncharted territory in Paris. The Silver Creek High School graduate and defending Olympic ...

Tanner Smith loves the finesse involved in field events. Saturday at the Frank Woodburn Invitational at Stocker Stadium, the Palisade High School thrower finished second in the discus with a toss of ...

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 ...

The 2016 Wharton graduate, who holds the program record in the discus throw, finished second at the 2024 United States Olympic Trials to qualify for his second straight Olympic team. For many Penn ...

St. Vrain Valley has a habit of producing strong female throwers. It must be something in the water. Three years ago, during the 2020 (2021) Summer Olympics, Silver Creek grad Valarie Allman became a ...

DES MOINES — Jacy Embray had taken her shoes off in disgust. Entering the Class 3-A state discus competition with a season-best of 124 feet, 9 inches, the Glenwood senior’s preliminary throws in the ...

A few days ago at practice, Morgan Twp.'s Steve Bartholomew uncorked the discus 165 feet. That was one of his "bad ones". "In the past, I've always had my best throws at the beginning of the year and ...