Here’s a recent story on the Olympics, via the Associated Press: A’ja Wilson and the United States women’s basketball team can move closer to their record eighth-consecutive Olympic gold medal ...

Curtis Thompson has earned a trip to Paris. Thompson, a former Mississippi State track and field athlete and a Florence High School grad, placed first in the javelin with a throw of 272 feet, 5 inches ...

ISLAMABAD — Olympic javelin gold medalist Arshad Nadeem received a total of 250 million rupees ($897,000) on Tuesday as Pakistan continued to celebrate his record-breaking throw at the Paris Games.

PARIS – Mississippi State’s two-time NCAA javelin champion will have a chance to add “Olympic Champion” to his resume. Anderson Peters, competing for Grenada, threw just once in Tuesday’s qualifying ...

ISLAMABAD -- More than a decade after making a javelin from a bamboo stick in a small village in Pakistan’s Punjab province, Arshad Nadeem stunned the world with his Olympic gold medal-winning throw ...

SAINT-DENIS., France (AP) — The heated rivalry in cricket has been well documented. Now, India and Pakistan are competing against each other in the javelin throw at the Olympics, too. When Arshad ...

PARIS, France — A University of Georgia alum advanced Wednesday out of qualifying to reach the final in the javelin throw at the Paris Olympics. Marie-Therese Obst, competing for Norway, recorded a ...

Keshorn Walcott of Trinidad and Tobago turned back the clock when he added the men's javelin world title to his Olympic gold from 2012. Walcott took gold with 88.16 metres ahead of twice former ...

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 ...

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Olympic javelin gold medalist Arshad Nadeem of Pakistan received $359,000 from the government on August 13 as the country continues to celebrate his record-breaking throw at the Paris Games. Punjab's ...