Discus Gallery

Discus Throwing - Olympics, London 1908

Classic Games at Shepherd's Bush - Four positions in throwing the discus. Series of four photographs showing the positions adopted while throwing the discus, one of the ancient Greek sports to be included in the London Olympic Games in 1908. Date: 1908

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Poet and discus thrower, Mlle. H. Konopacka

Halina Konopacka (1900 - 1989), famous athlete and the first Polish Olympic Champion (1928, Amsterdam). She took part in the Olympic Games in Amsterdam, where she won a gold medal in discus throw, breaking her own world record. This was the first women's gold-winning track and field event in the Olympics. She was also known in Poland for her poetry according to the caption. What a gal. Date: 1928

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Durga Slaying Mahisha, c. 1700-1710. Creator: Unknown

Durga Slaying Mahisha, c. 1700-1710. Durga is the name of the goddess who personifies the sum total of the powers of all the male gods combined. When she vanquishes the fierce buffalo demon named Mahisha, she is described as having many arms, each holding a different weapon: bow and arrow, trident, discus, shield, sword, mace, and the conch shell that sounds the start of battle. The horizontal lines on her arms are sectarian markings. At the moment depicted in this painting, she has succeeded in beheading the buffalo demon and shooting arrows into his true form that climbs from its neck. Artists in the foothills of the western Himalayas, where this work was made, depicted Durga's mount as a tiger--lions and tigers had synonymous meaning throughout India as emblems of shakti, or divine creative energy

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