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What is a discobolus?

What is a discobolus? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. a discus thrower
  2. a statue of a discus thrower
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There was, however, quite a nice poster for the Games, with a classical discobolus and Big Ben, which makes an instructive comparison with the flayed-skin ugliness of the 2012 logo.
The twelve stars of the European Union are positioned around the design of an ancient statue depicting a discobolus in his attempt to throw the discus.
It is so with the statue in our illustration called the discobolus or Disk-thrower.
To celebrate this year's Olympic Games in Athens, the national obverse will be replaced by a discobolus and the five Olympic rings.
You are strong enough, certainly, but the art of the discobolus must be learned like any other.
Born in Boeotia, he was active in Athens, and so is accounted an Athenian sculptor. Of his works, the most famous was a Discobolus.

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