Reebok Grand Prix-Best Ever, Tyson Gay runs 19.58! by Larry Eder

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Event by event analysis tomorrow morning before the plane, but here is the real deal: In front of 11,000 paying fans, the second largest professional track meet in the U.S. gave the fans a real life track & field experience. Consider the following:
* Tirunesh Dibaba, gold medalist at 5,000m and 10,000 meter looses at 5,000m in world leading 14:35 to Linet Masai!
*Christin Wurth Thomas’ run to the lead in the 1,500 m with six hundred meters to go, her amazing win in 4:03.96!
*Mike Rodgers wins 100m over Asafa Powell in 9.94!
* Micah Kogo holds off Bernard Lagat in 13:02.93 for 5,000m, with a four minute last mile!
* Carmelita Jeter runs 10.85 for 100 meters, beating Muna Lee and Veronica Campbell Brown!
* Leonel Manzano runs a come from behind, gutty 1,500 meters, wins in a world leading 3:34.13!
* Anna Willard, the steeplechaser, wins the 800 meters in 1:59.23!
* And Tyson Gay, who has not run a 200 meters since summer, runs a blazing 19.58, leading the world, and setting his own personal best. Wallace Spearmon broke 20.00 and was .4 back!
More details to come!
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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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