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 ...

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 ...

PARIS, France — Team USA discus thrower Valarie Allman added another gold medal to her collection on Monday with a win in women's discus at the Summer Olympics in Paris. Allman fouled on her first ...

CEDAR FALLS | Former Mason City standout Matt Schiffer has made many memories at Drake Stadium as a track and field athlete. Schiffer, a senior thrower for the UNI men’s track and field team, added ...

DES MOINES — Jacy Embray had taken her shoes off in disgust. Entering the Class 3-A state discus competition with a season-best of 124 feet, 9 inches, the Glenwood senior’s preliminary throws in the ...