When Hope Rogers first witnessed Aubree Ray competing in the discus, it just so happened to be at her first track and field meet — Chambersburg's Tim Cook Invitational — in late March. Rogers, a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

First of all, the rules. Athletes throw a metal disc weighing 2kg for men (22cm in diameter) and 1kg (18cm in diameter) for women, as far as possible while remaining inside a 2.5-metre diameter circle ...

ST. CLAIR — Mitchell Weber was really jacked up to compete in the national track meet, and for the preliminaries, he had just three throws of the discus to make the top eight and qualify for the ...

KINGSLEY, Iowa -- This early in the outdoor track season, a discus throw of 170 feet, 9 inches takes more than just a favorable headwind. Plenty of practice is also essential.

The debate between the effectiveness of the glide technique in shot put, versus the spin or rotational technique, is an age-old one. There is one faction that considers the rotational technique to be ...

Former University of Minnesota and Rochester Century star track and field thrower Karl Erickson is continuing his training as a 2008 Summer Olympics hopeful. Erickson, an all-American discus and ...