The Most Burly Hurls
Which is the most intense Olympic throwing event? Shot put? Hammer? Discus? Javelin? Also, explore a map of the big bang! http://www.bigbangregistry.com MinutePhysics is on Google+ - http://bit.l...
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Let's have a face-off of the most burly olympic hurling events - the Hammer throw, Javelin,Discus, and Shot Put. The Hammer and the Shot each weigh 16 pounds, which is two or threebabies-worth of iron either swung around at the end of a chain or hurled with brute strength.The discus, as you may know, is basically a four-pound frisbee, and the javelin is,well, a javelin.Now, Olympians can toss all of these things pretty far - I mean, in the 1980s they hadto redesign the javelin to make it harder to throw, because athletes were starting tolob it farther than the entire length of a stadium and into the stands…It still has the longest world record, but the javelin is considerably lighter than theother implements, so which one – the hammer, javelin, discus,...
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Let's have a face-off of the most burly olympic hurling events - the Hammer throw, Javelin,Discus, and Shot Put. The Hammer and the Shot each weigh 16 pounds, which is two or threebabies-worth of iron either swung around at the end of a chain or hurled with brute strength.The discus, as you may know, is basically a four-pound frisbee, and the javelin is,well, a javelin.Now, Olympians can toss all of these things pretty far - I mean, in the 1980s they hadto redesign the javelin to make it harder to throw, because athletes were starting tolob it farther than the entire length of a stadium and into the stands…It still has the longest world record, but the javelin is considerably lighter than theother implements, so which one – the hammer, javelin, discus,...
