Dayron Robles, the 2008 Olympic champion, is training once again. As many will remember, he stopped training last year, frustrated with the Cuban federation and their propensity for taking most of the athletes money and controlling an athlete’s careers.
Robles is training once again! He will compete for Cuba, per desportes.terra.es.
HAVANA (CUB): Former 110m hurdles world record holder and Olympic winner Dayron Robles is training in Havana and plans to compete during the indoor season, reports deportes.terra.es. However, Robles has not taken steps to compete for another country according to his coach Santiago Antunez.
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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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