Valarie Allman just upped America's gold medal tally with one of her own. The track and field athlete won the women's discus event in Tokyo this week, becoming just the third American woman to snag a ...

TOKYO — Before she became one of the world’s best discus throwers, before she overpowered her opponents and braved a rain delay to win an Olympic gold medal at National Stadium on Monday night, ...

PARIS — Don’t be surprised if America’s top throws coaches start showing up to ballet studios or hip-hop classes to hunt for overlooked prospects. Valarie Allman’s unprecedented path to double Olympic ...

Genesis Castro was a dancer, mostly ballet and tap, when she saw they were holding sign-ups for football in the cafeteria. The seventh-grader walked over and took the paper. That was her first step ...

This is a story about how dance turned into discus — and it involves spaghetti. “It definitely is a weird story,” said Valarie Allman, with a laugh. The 20-year-old sophomore at Stanford grew up with ...

Valarie Allman, who won the Olympic gold medal in women’s discus earlier this week, has a Berks County connection. The 26-year-old Allman is the daughter of David Allman and Lisa Oakman Allman, a 1980 ...

After finishing second at the Class 5A state discus competition each of the past two years, Deer Park senior Ashley Bryant was determined to end her high school career with a gold medal. "I wanted it ...

"I'm still waiting for my feet to touch the ground," the 26-year-old athlete told reporters after her victory at the Tokyo Olympics Lindsay Kimble is the Executive Editor, News at PEOPLE. She joined ...

This is a story about how dance turned into discus — and it involves spaghetti. “It definitely is a weird story,” said Valarie Allman, with a laugh. The 20-year-old sophomore at Stanford grew up with ...