Track and field will never fail to surprise its fans: a sport full of tiny details, where the smallest of margins separates moments of glory from those of agony and heartache. Jamaican discus thrower ...

Rumesh Pathirage of Sri Lanka wins javelin at Asian Games and credits cricket background The javelin is often overlooked by casual fans of track and field, but it's a gold-medal specialty in South ...

In all, 32 sports will be part of the program for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Each sport has its own international federation, and within a sport, several disciplines can coexist - such as road ...

Dec 10 (Reuters) - Jamaica's Olympic discus champion Roje Stona is among 14 athletes bidding to win a contract with an NFL team through the American football organisation's international player ...

SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — 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. Roje Stona ...

Imrich Bugár, the first world champion in men's discus and an Olympic medalist for Czechoslovakia, has passed away at the age of 70. His former club, Dukla, confirmed his death on Wednesday but did ...

TOKYO - Daniel Stahl added the Olympic men's discus gold to his world championship title and his compatriot Simon Pettersson made it a one-two for Sweden on Saturday. Stream Los Angeles News for free, ...

Mykolas Alekna of Lithuania made history on Sunday by breaking the world discus record and becoming the first athlete to surpass the 75-meter mark. The 22-year-old threw 75.56 meters at the World ...

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MELBOURNE, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Australian discus king Matt Denny is chasing his first world championships medal in Tokyo and will do it alongside the man he regards as both the benchmark and a ...

The furthest he'd ever hurled the discus was a world record 48.34m. All he needed for gold was 46.87m. Yogesh Kathuniya, silver medallist from the Tokyo Paralympics and two-time silver medallist at ...