In the final week of the Olympics in Paris, the mood among Jamaicans has been rather subdued. Many have expressed disappointment and frustration, as the expected medal tally did not materialise — on ...

ALLEN PARK – Happy birthday, Teegan. Monroe High senior Teegan Simmons woke up Sunday to a special greeting on his birthday. Joel Reed, who coaches the shot-put and discus throwers for Monroe’s track ...

Saint-Denis, France – Razorback Rojé Stona broke the Olympic discus record in the fourth round of competition at Stade de France with an impressive throw of 229 feet, 8 inches (70.00) and it delivered ...

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 ...

COLUMBIA - Not even a second after the discus left his hand on the final throw of his high school career, Jefferson City's Devin Roberson jumped up and pumped his arms into the air. The discus spun ...

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 ...

Mykolas Alekna continues to stretch the limits of what is possible in the discus throw. The 22-year-old Lithuanian, competing in his final season as a Cal athlete, twice broke his own year-old world ...

Gia Lewis-Smallwood already had plenty of reasons to love the Tucson Elite Classic before Saturday. Now she has another. The 34-year old Champaign, Ill. native threw the discus 214-10 2/3 to break the ...

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 ...

Jackson senior Clay Darnell beat his nearest competitor by 30 feet in the discus competition at the Festus Early Bird Invitational on Saturday, and that might be the least impressive thing about his ...

BATTLE CREEK - When Alex Lutgring was in middle school, he happened to look up at the wall in the Pennfield High School gym at the track records listed there and saw a name he recognized. "Yeah, I saw ...