Ryan Crouser has won three Olympic gold medals in shot put, but it was a solemn innovation in an Oregon barn that turned him into a groundbreaker.
It sounds like the plot to a cheesy black-and-white movie from the 1940s. A lunk of a guy goes out to the barn behind his house every night and tosses a metal ball as far as he can. Over and over. He tries shifting his feet, turning his body in different directions, tinkering. And, just like that, he revolutionizes the sport of shot put. But this isn’t a Hollywood story.
Restless for something better, the self-coached Crouser searched the internet for information and applied concepts from upper-level engineering courses he took in college before switching his major to economics. All his tinkering, spread across thousands of practice throws, led to a “light bulb moment” in that barn in December 2022. It was about 8 p.m. and he recalls thinking “Yeah, let’s try something new just to engage myself because shot put can be extremely monotonous.
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