WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Two-time Olympic women’s shot put champion Valerie Adams has announced her retirement at the age of 37. Adams also won Olympic silver and bronze medals and was a ...

The Adams family of New Zealand is a very big, very athletic bunch. One of the 18 siblings is Valerie Adams, a world class shot putter and athlete with gold medals and world championships on her ...

There’s one person who knows those pressures well, having represented New Zealand in five Olympic Games. Dame Valerie Adams is one of the country’s most well-known athletes, a two-time Olympic gold ...

TOKYO, JAPAN - AUGUST 01: Valerie Adams of Team New Zealand reacts after winning the bronze medal in the Women’s Shot Put Final on day nine of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at Olympic Stadium on August ...

While Oklahoma City Thunder center Steven Adams has carved out an impressive NBA career, he’s certainly not the only athlete in his family. And what his sister, Valerie Adams, has done is nothing ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) – New Zealand shot putter Valerie Adams commands a place among the most elite companies in world athletics and yet has the misfortune of not even being the most famous ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Shot putter Valerie Adams will carry the New Zealand flag Sunday in the closing ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics. Adams, 36, won a bronze medal in the women’s shot in ...

— -- RIO DE JANEIRO -- Michelle Carter loves to let the tension build. At the Olympics, she took it to extremes. The American shot putter waited until her last throw Friday night to knock off ...

New Zealand shot putter Valerie Adams says she will not ''waste energy'' thinking of Nadzeya Ostapchuk after receiving the gold medal at the London Olympics after her Belarus rival had a positive ...