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  • I pretty much stunk with the shotput, but I was pretty good at discus.

    Go, Ruth Frith! « Dating Jesus 2009

  • I was going to get up and go and drop her and that wedding policy like a hot shotput—but I didn't.

    Nuptial Indemnity Con Chapman 2011

  • Ruth Frith, of Australia, was the oldest competitor at the World Masters Games on Sunday, and at age 100, she won the shotput.

    Go, Ruth Frith! « Dating Jesus 2009

  • I thought I could transition from softball to shotput without a problem when I joined the HS track team.

    Go, Ruth Frith! « Dating Jesus 2009

  • Sold the cross-stitch and have run off with Barb my shotput coach.

    Cross-stitch Matt Potter 2011

  • Ruth Frith, of Australia, was the oldest competitor at the World Masters Games on Sunday, and at age 100, she won the shotput.

    12 « October « 2009 « Dating Jesus 2009

  • And the wife said the same that night when she got home from shotput practice.

    Cross-stitch Matt Potter 2011

  • And it was the Netherlands that created klootschieten one version of the game consists of throwing a shotput-like ball as far as possible.

    Are the Dutch Destined to Lose? 2010

  •   "I do it more like it's the 8-pound shotput," a track-and-field event he excelled in at Groton Academy, his prep school.

    Your Guide to a WASP Bar Mitzvah 2010

  •           I was going to get up and go and drop her and that wedding policy like a hot shotput — but I didn't.

    Nuptial Indemnity 2010

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