Athletics News

Coffee with Larry, September 23, 2024, Get your medical tests! Grand Slam Track building well, Seb Coe begins campaigning

Coffee with Larry, August 8, 2024, Exciting Women's LJ, Amazing Men's Jav, Big Upset in Men's 200m, and Grant gets his gold in 110m hurdles!

This is my daily chat with #RunBlogRun viewers and track fans on all things track & field!

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This is Coffee with Larry for Monday, September 23, 2024.

Omius hat with cooling cubes, photo courtesy of Omius

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Sifan Hassan won the Paris Olympic marathon, wearing the OMIUS head band, photo courtesy of OMIUS

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Our topics:

1. Get your check-ups, especially heart issues, as your medical professionals suggest.

2. I just had a stress test with nuclear medicine.

3. Thanks to staff at UW Meriter Hospital.

4. Grand Slam Track continues to impress as it builds interest in their 2025 schedule.

Grand Slam Track

5. Seb Coe begins campaigning for IOC president position, he is on of seven athletes.

Jeff Benjamin with Seb Coe, photo from Jeff Benjamin collection

6. Elliott Hill will take over as new NIKE CEO and President on October 14 from John Donahue, who retired. Many NIKE employees, current and

past, are overjoyed.

 

7. Cross country is going well all across the country!

The fans were a huge part of the story, cheering the best of college cross country on the challenging course! photo by James B. Daves.

See you tomorrow on Coffee with Larry!

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  • Larry Eder

    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 Allman, ” I’m no Angel.”

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