Success in Athletics and how to obtain it

) I 1 ;{ I CHAPTER XVI DISCUS-THROWING WITH the so-called classical form of discus-throwing it is not our intention to deal, not because the event is never seen or practised since its exclusion from the programme of the Olympic Games in 1912, after having been included at Athens in 1906 and at London in 1908, but because we are of the opinion that the whole thing is based upon a misconception of Myron's statue of the Discobolos. So clumsy a mode of throwing would never have appealed to such a grace-loving race as the ancient Greeks. We are of the opinion that in ancient times the method of throwing was much the same as that employed nowadays, and known as the " Free style," in which the athlete turns once within the circle and hurls the discus with a circular sweep of the arm. It is, however, possible that the ancients did not employ the turn. The modern idea of the style employed by the ancients was conceived from the reconstruction of Myron's Discobolos, and may be observed from the reproduction of a medallion taken from this statue, in which it would appear that the thrower has swung the arm with the discus in hand straight up behind the I47