This is my daily chat with #RunBlogRun viewers and track fans on all things track & field!
This is Coffee with Larry for Tuesday, August 13, 2024.
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Our topics:
1. The quality of the broadcast in the US was pretty good. NBC did the evening shows, and Peacock did the morning shows with a global media team.
2. The Sprints were exciting, and the relays captivated the fans!
Letsile Tebogo, BOT, won the 200m, in the biggest upset of the Paris Olympics, photo by World Athletics
3. There was not a boring event for the entire 11 days.
Stade de France, August 3, 2024, French fans chant, “Allez les bleu”, photo by World Athletics
4. The middle distances (800m-1,500m) were fantastic!
Cole Hocker, Paris 2024 Olympic Games – Aug 06: Images of Men’s 1500 Metres Final (Photo By Dan Vernon / World Athletics)
5. 43 countries took medals in the Paris track and field events. 189 countries participated in the athletics events.
Sifan Hassan wins the 2024 Paris Olympic Marathon, August 11, 2024, photo by World Athletics
6. What was your favorite event?
See you tomorrow with Coffee with Larry!
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.”
