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 ...

On a perfectly sunny, breezy summer day, teens may relax by the pool or hang out with friends and not think about the long school year they just finished. But not all of them. Vernon Hills High School ...

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 ...

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 ...

BISMARCK — Kaden Pastian walked to the throwing circle for the final discus throw of his high school career Friday at the North Dakota Class B boys track and field meet. It was sinking in. He was ...

EUGENE, Ore. — EDITOR'S NOTE: The interview with Jagers in the player above is from March of 2020, prior to the decision to postpone the Olympics until 2021. A native son of Northeast Ohio is about to ...

One of the world’s oldest sports still being played, the discus throw involves tossing a heavy disc as far as you can. It may sound simple, but technique, form and strength all come into play when ...

Grand Forks Red River's Bryan Bjerk unleashed a discus throw of 198 feet, 1 inch last Saturday -- believed to be the longest toss recorded in North Dakota state high school history. As impressive as ...

Arizona State's Jorinde van Klinken competed unattached last week at two meets in Tucson, hoping for an Olympic qualifying mark in discus. She needed a throw of 63.50 meters (208 feet-4 inches), not ...

The story of the day on Tuesday was Laulauga Tausaga's shock win in the women's discus, which was a career-best throw by just over four meters. Laulauga Tausaga's first two throws did not go well on ...