1.   As for de Bruin, Freas said the Dutch discus thrower had some excellent ideas.

2.   Behind him there was a life-size bronze of a discus thrower and another sculpture of a bobcat in a death struggle with a lizard.

3.   A Cuban discus thrower.

4.   A burly and dignified discus thrower from Qatar.

5.   For instance, the flag bearer for the Central Africa Republic was a discus thrower named Michael Conjungo.

6.   He is now tied with American discus thrower Al Oerter as the only athletes to win the same event in four Olympics.

7.   He threw it back and it flew so far that his coach made him a discus thrower on the spot.

8.   He was all-conference and all-Northern California as a defensive tackle, a top shot putter and discus thrower, and he wrestled as a heavyweight.

9.   His father, Larry, played football at Nebraska, while his mother, Carol, was an Olympic discus thrower and competed in the U.S. basketball team trials.

10.   IAAF tests last month nabbed five athletes, including two Americans -- discus thrower Mike Gravelle and heptathlete Gea Johnson.