ST. PAUL - Ryanna Anvid spent late nights with her father this past week, making the short drive to South Ridge High School in Culver so she could work on her discus technique. This was the senior's ...

On a perfectly sunny, breezy summer day, teens may relax by the pool or hang out with friends and not think about the long school year they just finished. But not all of them. Vernon Hills High School ...

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 ...

ST. CLAIR — Mitchell Weber was really jacked up to compete in the national track meet, and for the preliminaries, he had just three throws of the discus to make the top eight and qualify for the ...

In the second part of our review of IAAF findings, we report on the biomechanical analysis of the men's discus final at the London World Championships Sport makes much of the concept of marginal gains ...

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 ...

First of all, the rules. Athletes throw a metal disc weighing 2kg for men (22cm in diameter) and 1kg (18cm in diameter) for women, as far as possible while remaining inside a 2.5-metre diameter circle ...

It can appear to the naked eye as a blur; a frenzied whirlwind of arms and legs, but for Ancient Greece it epitomized an intoxicating marriage of harmony and balance. A sport with an almost ...