Possible Clues:

• Athlete's throw
• Field event missile
• Event broadcast live in the New Year?
• The point of this is that it's live in January, in short
• Live broadcast held during start of year? It's competitively pitched
• Weapon thrown in competitive field events
• Decathlon event
• Athletics event broadcast live in first month
• Spear, article Indonesian discards before river rises
• Lance and Jack have topless work cut short