Julius Yego, Kenya's star Javelin thrower, to open at IAAF World Challenge on May 11, by Alfons Juck, EME News

NAIROBI (KEN): Kenya’s Africa Javelin champion Julius Yego will open his season campaign at IAAF World Challenge in Tokyo on May 11. As Kenyan media are reporting he also plans to throw at Shanghai Diamond League meeting on May 18. His main aim for 2014 is to attack the medal podium at Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. There is also another goal to retain his continental crown at the Senior Africa Athletics Championships in Marrakech, a mission that will see him earn direct ticket to compete in the IAAF Continental Cup in the same city. Yego attributes his rise to his discipline and help he received from Finland coach Petteri Piironen.

(Editor’s note: Julius Yego learnt how to throw the javelin by watching You Tube videos, and a great thrower was nurtured! The London Olympic flag bearer, Julius is respected and admired by his countrymen and women as well as other throwers. Andreas Thorkildsen, a two time Olympic, World and European champion in the javelin, chatted with me regarding Julius in Copenhagen a few weeks ago. Thorkildsen told me about how Julius Yego started to throw and how good he truly is! Watch for even bigger throws from Mr. Yego! )

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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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