javelin
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“My goal was to for the gold first, then the mark,” said Massey, who will continue throwing at Oregon and may even compete in hammer and javelin.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2026
Look no further than shortstop Mookie Betts this week lauding the effects of throwing a javelin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026
It’s like golf, except a player can’t javelin his clubs into a water hazard or pitch a 15-pound orb across six alleys, even if he could.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026
Covering the men's javelin F46 final at the World Para Athletics Championships in New Delhi, I noticed Guillermo Varona Gonzalez with a different pre-throw routine than most.
From BBC ● Dec. 25, 2025
Besides, my mom had made me promise not to use deadly weapons in the apartment after I’d swung a javelin the wrong way and taken out her china cabinet.
From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan
On a grass field near the players’ parking lot, he watched Yamamoto throw javelins as part of his workout routine.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2025
Perhaps harassed by Neanderthals throwing wooden javelins, the angle of the injury shows the lion was lying on its side when the killing blow came.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 11, 2023
You don’t just limit yourself to hammers and javelins: You also help out during the rugby events.
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2021
They came loaded with balls of cotton, parrots, javelins, and other things too numerous to mention; these they exchanged for whatever we chose to give them.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2019
Lukes large friends were still pointing their javelins at us.
From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan
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