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 ...

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 ...

AUSTIN, Texas -- Valarie Allman has been throwing discus for 10 years. “When you throw a discus it takes about two seconds, and it’s a combination of power, of grace, of strength… I like to think of ...