Here’s a recent Olympics story via the Associated Press: SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — One of America’s very best in the medieval-looking pursuit of hammer throw thought she had seen it all when it came ...

Former Clemson men's track and field athlete Rojé Stona set an Olympic record in the discus throw to win gold at the Paris Olympics on Wednesday. Stona recorded a throw of 70.00 meters in the fourth ...

Lithuanian discus thrower Mykolas Alekna broke a world record that had stood for four decades at the Oklahoma Throws Series World Invitational meeting in Ramona on Sunday. The Lithuanian’s throw of 74 ...

CHRISTOPHER CRAWFORD added more than a metre to his men’s discus national record at the National Collegiate Athletic ...

A University of Pennsylvania graduate just missed out on advancing in men's discus on Day 10 of the Olympic Games.Sam Mattis competed in the Group A qualifier. The top 6 throwers advanced. Mattis came ...

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 ...

Olympic track and field athletes, including world record-setting discus thrower Mykolas Alekna, are competing in Paris this week. Alekna’s journey included a stop in Ramona, Oklahoma, where he set the ...

RAMONA, Okla. (AP) — Mykolas Alekna of Lithuania broke a world record in the discus throw that had stood since 1986 on Sunday at the Oklahoma Throws Series competition. Alekna's throw of 243 feet, 11 ...

April 15 (Reuters) - Performance-enhancing drugs have long been the scourge of athletics field events but now some observers are claiming "weather doping" was behind a slew of discus records at a ...

The hammer throw, shot put and discus are amongst the ultimate displays of strength at the Paris 2024 Olympics. The shot put and discus have been part of the Olympic schedule since the very first ...

Lithuanian Mykolas Alekna broke a 37-year-old world record in the men's discus, the oldest world record in men's track and field. Alekna, a 21-year-old junior at Cal-Berkeley, threw the four-pound ...