Florida’s Alida van Daalen arrives at the NCAA Championships poised to cap a record-setting career with a discus crown.

Old Tappan senior Layla Giordano said someone sent her the Meet of Champions discus record before Wednesday’s Meet of Champions. Giordano set her sights on beating the record, which was set by former ...

Mykolas Alekna routinely strolls unbothered across the Berkeley campus, happily blending into the crowd of more than 45,000 students. Then he returns home to Lithuania, land of renowned discus ...

Lithuanian discus thrower Mykolas Alekna broke a world record that had stood for four decades at the Oklahoma Throws Series World Invitational meeting in Ramona on Sunday. The Lithuanian’s throw of 74 ...

SHIPPENSBURG — Cold temperatures and heavy rain aren’t the best weather conditions for discus tossing. State College’s Alyssa Lipski can attest to that. The Little Lions junior overcame the adverse ...

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 ...

Cameron Gramzow has a new favorite meal. A bagel, egg, mayo, cheese and sometimes bacon is his breakfast of choice. Or is it breakfast of champions? “I’ve been eating it just about every morning for a ...

PARIS — Don’t be surprised if America’s top throws coaches start showing up to ballet studios or hip-hop classes to hunt for overlooked prospects. Valarie Allman’s unprecedented path to double Olympic ...

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 ...