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Coffee with Larry, June 11, 2025, Some thoughts on Rome, Oslo Diamond League

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This is Coffee with Larry for Wednesday, June 11, 2025.

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Our topics:

1. The Rome Diamond League was June 6, 2025. Trayvon Bromell won the 100 meters in Rome. Josette Andrews took 4th in the 5,000 meters and Sandi Morris won the pv in 4.80m WL!

Nadia Battocletti, Rome Golden Gala, photo by FIDAL

2. Oslo DL held their presser at the Oslo track, on June 11, 2025, with Usain Bolt as a special guest.

Karsten Warholm, NOR, wins the Men’s 300m Hurdles with a time of 33.05s in a WBP at the Wanda Diamond League Red Star Macalline Xiamen on 26 April 2025

3. The Oslo DL meeting will be held on June 12, 2025.

Oslo DL 2023 photo finish, by Diamond League/Omega

See you Friday on #CoffeewithLarry!

  • Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America’s first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: “I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself.” Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys. Theme song: Greg…

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