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Figure of a male athlete about to throw a discus, his right arm is extended back, the weight of his body resting on his right foot, his eyes cast downward.

The shadows of early evening were creeping across Brussels’ Stadium last week as a hulking U.S. Army lieutenant in trackman’s flimsies stepped into the discus ring. At the international military ...