{"id":2009160,"date":"2023-08-23T11:11:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T15:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tausaga-wins-discus-gold-at-worlds-with-4-meter-improvement-on-personal-best\/"},"modified":"2023-08-23T11:13:05","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T15:13:05","slug":"tausaga-wins-discus-gold-at-worlds-with-4-meter-improvement-on-personal-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tausaga-wins-discus-gold-at-worlds-with-4-meter-improvement-on-personal-best\/","title":{"rendered":"Tausaga clinches discus gold at Worlds, smashes personal best by 4 meters."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftausaga-wins-discus-gold-at-worlds-with-4-meter-improvement-on-personal-best%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2009160&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div data-post-content=\"true\" class=\"post_content\" id=\"post_content\">\n<h2>BUDAPEST, Hungary\u2014Discus Thrower Laulauga Tausaga Shocks the World with Record-Breaking Performance<\/h2>\n<p>Discus throw is a game of centimeters. But when Laulauga\u2063 Tausaga unleashed a throw that surpassed her personal best by over four meters (13 feet) at \u2062the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/no-bikinis-beach-volleyball-stars-boycott-qatar-event-because-of-no-bikini-policy\/\" title=\"No Bikinis: Beach Volleyball Stars Boycott Qatar Event Because Of No-Bikini Policy\">world championships<\/a> on Tuesday, the crowd\u2014and even Tausaga \u200bherself\u2014were left in awe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI \u200djust screamed,\u201d Tausaga exclaimed, recalling the moment her throw secured her the title of the first American woman to\u200d win a world <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-toyota-super-bowl-ads-strong-pro-life-message\/\" title=\"WATCH: Toyota Super Bowl Ad\u2019s Strong Pro-Life Message\">gold medal<\/a> in discus. \u201cI was like, I don\u2019t know how to contain this emotion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tausaga&#8217;s remarkable achievement \u2062came in Budapest, where she claimed \u200bvictory with a fifth-round throw of 69.49 meters (228 feet),\u200b surpassing her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-official-trump-crushes-record-for-largest-gdp-increase-in-us-history-3rd-quarter-gdp-up-33-1\/\" title=\"IT'S OFFICIAL: Trump Crushes Record for Largest GDP Increase in US History -- 3rd Quarter GDP Up 33.1%\">previous record<\/a> by an astonishing 4.03\u2062 meters. This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tausaga-wins-discus-gold-at-worlds-with-4-meter-improvement-on-personal-best\/\" title=\"Tausaga clinches discus gold at Worlds, smashes personal best by 4 meters.\">unexpected triumph propelled<\/a> her ahead of her teammate and world leader Valarie Allman, securing her \u2062a \u200dwell-deserved \u200dfirst-place finish.<\/p>\n<div class=\"shortcode\">\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Related Stories<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/sports\/american-shacarri-richardson-caps-comeback-by-winning-wild-100-meters-at-worlds-5477996\">American Sha\u2019Carri \u200bRichardson Caps Comeback by Winning Wild 100 Meters at Worlds<\/a> (8\/22\/2023)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/epochtv\/supporters-welcome-the-spanish-women-soccer-team-home-after-world-cup-victory-5477875\">Supporters Welcome the Spanish Women\u2019s Soccer Team Home After World Cup Victory<\/a> (8\/21\/2023)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>Reflecting on her journey, Tausaga \u200cshared,\u200d \u201cI had such a rough beginning to my season and, you \u200bknow, I didn\u2019t think \u2062I\u2063 was gonna be\u200b able to come out of it. I\u2019m just proud, very, very proud.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Allman may have felt\u200c disappointed with her silver\u2064 medal after leading for most of the competition, she found solace in the fact that she lost to a\u2064 fellow American athlete.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If I could pick \u200csomeone\u200b that \u200dI would want to win, I would absolutely be so honored to be sitting at the podium with another American,&#8221; Allman \u2063graciously expressed.<\/p>\n<p>Tausaga, originally from Oahu \u2064and later moving \u2063to San Diego at the age of 7, chose Iowa for college because she\u200c felt it was time to embrace a new challenge. As she put it, &#8220;it was time for me to get, you know, locked in in a \u200dsnowstorm.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Being of Hawaiian and Samoan descent, Tausaga expressed her heartfelt concern for the recent fires \u200cthat devastated Maui, \u2062causing the destruction of the town of Lahaina and \u2064claiming the\u2063 lives of over 100 people, with many \u200dstill\u200d missing. She shared,\u200b \u201cI\u2019m constantly praying for them. Pacific Islanders stick together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the final round,\u200d Allman had one last opportunity to surpass her teammate but fell short. As Tausaga stepped into the ring for her final throw, already guaranteed the world title, tears welled up in her \u2064eyes. Her first four rounds included two fouls and a throw of 52 meters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was one of the\u200b best series of my life, considering I\u200d had two fouls and I was\u200c able to make\u200b it up,\u201d Tausaga reflected. \u201cI\u2019m \u2064just glad to say that I mentally got over that hump.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s remarkable to think that Tausaga\u2063 wasn&#8217;t particularly interested in sports during her upbringing. She dedicated \u200cher gold medal to\u200d her\u2064 mother, who encouraged her to pursue athletic endeavors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just wanted to \u2064stay home and be a bookworm,\u201d Tausaga admitted.\u200c \u201cShe was like &#8216;No. &#8230;\u2062 You are getting very strong, so we might as well go do something.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her journey began with volleyball, but that \u2063didn&#8217;t captivate her. Then came basketball, but she lacked the necessary speed. It\u2063 was \u200cin high school that Tausaga discovered her talent for throwing shot put, which became her true\u2062 passion.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BUDAPEST, Hungary\u2014Laulauga Tausaga amazed the crowd and herself at the world championships with a discus throw that surpassed her personal best by over 4 meters. Becoming the first American to win the title, Tausaga&#8217;s incredible feat left her screaming in disbelief. Discus throw truly is a game of centimeters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":2009161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2009160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2009160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2009161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2009160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2009160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2009160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}