TOKYO, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Former Olympic champion Daniel Stahl of Sweden won the last gold medal of the 2025 World Athletics Championships on Sunday with the penultimate throw of a men's discus final ...

Lithuanian Mykolas Alekna broke a 37-year-old world record in the men's discus, the oldest world record in men's track and field. Alekna, a 21-year-old junior at Cal-Berkeley, threw the four-pound ...

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Since the advent of the modern-day Olympics in 1896, athletes have redefined limits in pursuit of the Olympic ideal: "Faster, higher, stronger." Through a combination of training, better regimen and ...

A discus throw takes an unexpected turn when the athlete loses control of the discus before the attempt can properly begin. The moment catches everyone off guard as the discus drops onto the field ...

Lithuanian Mykolas Alekna broke a 37-year-old world record in the men’s discus, the oldest world record in men’s track and field. Alekna, a 21-year-old junior at Cal-Berkeley, threw the four-pound ...