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!

This is Coffee with Larry for Thursday, August 8, 2024.

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Out topics:

1. An exciting Women’s LJ, Tara Davis-Woodhall, took gold with a leap of 7.10 meters. Malaika Mihambo, defending champion, was silver in 6.98m. Jasmine Moore, US, won the bronze in the LJ, she is only the second women to win medals in TJ and LJ in the same Olympics!

2. The Men’s javelin was a historic event. Arshad Nadeem, PAK, gave his country, Pakistan, its first gold medal in the javelin with an OR of 92.97m! Neeraj Chopra, IND, took the silver medal in89.48m. In the bronze, Anderson Peters, GRN, threw 88.54m.

3. In the biggest upset of the Games so far, Letsile Tebogo, Botswana, won in 19.46, Kenny Bednarek, US, took silver in 19.62 and Noah Lyles, US, took bronze, in 1970. Noah Lyles admitted post race that he had COVID.

4. In the women’s 400m hurdles, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, US, took gold in the 400m h in WR 50.37. Anna Cockrell, US, ran a PB of 51.37 for the silver medal. Femke Bol, collapsed around the 300m, and finished in bronze position, in 52.15.

5. Grant Holloway won the gold medal in the 110m hurdles in 12.99, with Daniel Roberts in 13.09 and Rasheed Broadbell, JAM, 13.09. Grant had focused on turning his silver in Tokyo to gold in Paris. Grant succeeded.

This is Coffee with Larry, see you tomorrow!