Cal junior Mykolas Alekna breaks his dad’s 20-year-old Olympic record in the discus

After setting a new world record in the men’s discus throw in April, Cal junior Mykolas Alekna entered the Summer Olympics as a gold medal favorite.

And for a little while on Wednesday morning, it looked like the Lithuanian was going to capture it.

Alekna, 21, threw a toss of 69.97 meters, breaking a 20-year-old Olympic record of 69.89 meters, set by his own father, Virgilijus Alekna.

It moved Mykolas into first place temporarily, but Jamaica’s Roje Stona then broke the record...