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 ...

MOORHEAD-The first time Hillary Birchem threw a discus, the experience wasn't pleasant. "I said I would never do it again," said Birchem, from Lisbon, N.D. A high school freshman at the time, Birchem ...

"While both discus and hammer throwing involve rotating movements resulting in the throw of an object, discus throwers sometimes report dizziness, a condition never experienced by hammer throwers... A ...

Wave a discus in front of the Durands and they get all weak in the knees. It's like leading birds with bread crumbs. Wave it and they'll follow you anywhere. They'd probably follow you even if you ...

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 ...

When I pass the statue of the discus thrower in front of the Johns Hopkins University field house, my glorious athletic career flashes before my eyes. There’s lifelong dreaming in these moments, 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 ...

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Kathleen Durand and Nolan Nagle know each other so well, that every tic and twitch, every vulnerable spot, it’s all fair game. Words are like ping pong balls for them, batted around sometimes in jest, ...

He also—allegedly—was known for dating more than three people at a time, which makes sense, because Multiple Mac was and is ...