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 ...

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 ...

Valarie Allman made it back-to-back golds as the American won women’s discus. The Tokyo Games champion, a native of Delaware, had a shaky start, fouling the first of her eight attempts on Monday at ...