Shot put legends Ryan Crouser and Joe Kovacs took first and second, respectively, at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials Saturday night. Crouser topped his American rival Kovacs with a distance of ...

Vashti Cunningham, Joe Kovacs, Valarie Allman, Curtis Thompson, and Sam Mattis will leave everything at the Stade de France over the next few days for a chance at Olympic gold. The five athletes are ...

Joe Kovacs at the Wanda Diamond League Final Meeting in Zurich. Photo Credit: Joerg Oegerli, Mitchell Media Joe Kovacs at the Wanda Diamond League Final Meeting in Zurich. Photo Credit: Joerg Oegerli, ...

SAINT-DENIS, France — There was no decision for Joe Kovacs to make. Three straight athletes throwing in front of him at the Olympic men’s shot put final Saturday had slipped and fallen — the logical ...

PARIS (WCMH) — With a clutch throw in his final attempt, Joe Kovacs went from off the podium to a third consecutive silver in the Olympic men’s shot put. The Powell, Ohio resident was fourth heading ...

Lehigh Valley native Joe Kovacs won his third Olympic silver medal in the men’s shot put at the Paris Games on Saturday. In a replay of the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, the Bethlehem Catholic and Penn ...

Joe Kovacs, the two-time world shot-put champion and 2011 Penn State graduate, is headed to his third Olympics, where he likely will duel yet again with fellow American Ryan Crouser. Kovacs finished ...

SAINT-DENIS, France — At some point during the past eight years, introduction became a hassle for Ryan Crouser. He would emerge from tunnel to track and pop his shirt or raise his arm or flex his ...

It took everything Joe Kovacs had to win his third Olympic silver medal. With his wife coaching him on, and his twin toddlers providing inspiration, the Penn State grad uncorked a last-chance finals ...

Joe Kovacs is a big Pennsylvania guy who is just a little mama’s boy and has her to thank for his Olympic dream in the shot put. “I came from a really small high school, so we didn’t have track,” said ...