SAINT-DENIS, France — Don't look now, but Jamaica, that Caribbean island known for producing elite sprinters such as Usain Bolt and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, is now a field-event power. Former ...

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 ...

April 15 (Reuters) - Performance-enhancing drugs have long been the scourge of athletics field events but now some observers are claiming "weather doping" was behind a slew of discus records at a ...

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 ...

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 ...

For the second meet in-a-row, the main topic of discussion is Claudio Romero and his improvements from last season in the discus throw. A week after throwing the nation-leading toss of 64.96 meters ...