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 ...

16-year-old Carter Rivet of Alexandria, Louisiana, won two gold medals at the AAU Junior Olympics Track & Field competition. Rivet dominated the discus throw, winning by over 30 feet and nearly ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - At UMS-Wright, tradition runs deep - but every once in a while, a student-athlete comes along and rewrites the record books. Bulldogs’ discus thrower Chandler Taylor delivered a ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - University of Louisville’s discus thrower Jayden Ulrich made her Olympic debut Friday. Ulrich was in the qualifiers for the Women’s Discus Throw at the 2024 Summer Games. She ...

Valarie Allman quickly made headlines after winning the gold medal in the women’s discus throw at the 2024 Paris Olympics. The 29-year-old athlete achieved a distance of 69.50 meters, putting her in ...

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 ...

East Alton-Wood River grad and Olympian Jayden Ulrich, a senior at Louisville, has been named the USTFCCCA National Athlete of the Week. EA-WR grad Jayden Ulrich, who competed in the women's discus ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) - An invitation to try a new sport changed the course of Jake Atwood’s life forever. “I just saw him one day, and I said you’re kind of tall, kind of long,” remembered Chiles ...

A veteran of three Olympic Games, Fortune Gordien dominated the discus throw for a decade during the late 1940s and early 1950s, improving the world record four times. While at the University of ...