Tim Glover, the top javelin thrower in the United States, shrugged off one indignity after another performing one of the less appreciated sports at the Adidas Grand Prix on Randalls Island on Saturday. Forget finishing in seventh place (“it happens”): it was not yet 10 a.m., and the stadium’s mostly containing the parents of 11-year-olds running relay races. But the music was too much.
“They had me throwing to Justin Bieber,” said Glover, a stocky 24-year-old from Normal, Ill., where he lives with his parents. “Are you kidding?”
Glover faced off against his friend Riley Dolezal, a 29-year-old middle school gym teacher in West Fargo, N.