Ryan Crouser of the United States during the men's shot put final on the first day of the 2025 World Athletics Championships at the National Stadium in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Andrzej ...

Editor's note: This story was updated to reflect Ryan Crouser won gold in the shot put at the 2024 Paris Olympics. The most dominant U.S. men’s track and field athlete at the Paris Olympics isn’t a ...

When Chase Jackson, a shot put thrower with Team USA, arrived in Paris for the Olympics and saw her uniforms, she felt heartbroken. Nothing was in her size. In an Instagram Story, she shared an image ...

SAINT-DENIS, France − Larry Crouser was with his grandson Ryan on Saturday night. He was with him in warm-ups, as the greatest shot put thrower of all-time prepared for a record-setting opportunity at ...

Ryan Crouser, an American, has combined radar technology borrowed from golf and an innovative technique to take aim at his third straight Olympic gold. By Jeré Longman Reporting from Paris and New ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I have had a lifelong love of both history and the Olympics. This article is more than 2 years old. German shot putter Yemisi ...

What shot-put shots are best for men, women and kids? The shot put has been an Olympic track and field event since Athens, Greece, in 1896. The shot is a heavy metal ball about the size of a ...

American Ryan Crouser has turned the shot put into a science. As he goes for his third Olympic gold in a row, he keeps tweaking ideas of rotation, radius and speed and utilizes computer mechanics. At ...

Here’s a recent story on the Olympics, via the Associated Press: SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — One of America’s very best in the medieval-looking pursuit of hammer throw thought she had seen it all when ...

Despite a nagging elbow injury and pectoral muscle tear in the spring, the 31-year-old from a family of throwers will compete for a third gold medal at the 2024 Olympics. The two-time Olympic gold ...

SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — Nap time has turned into prime shot-put time around the Kovacs household. Joe and Ashley Kovacs built a ring on the side of their house in Dublin, Ohio, and take full ...