Oliver out of Beijing World Challenge meet, (heel issue), from EME News

David Oliver, Moscow 2013, photo by PhotoRun.net

OLIVER OUT OF BEIJING
BEIJING (CHN): Hurdles world champion David Oliver cancelled his participation at the Beijing IAAF World Challenge meet on Wednesday. When pushing out from the starting blocks in Shanghai he felt something in his heel. This feeling prevented him to come up to his normal standard and afterward he also felt some soreness in the heel. In Beijing on Monday Oliver had an MRI done which showed no damage to any tendons, ligaments or muscle, but he still feels soreness in the area and for that reason it has been decided not to start in Beijing. David will go back to the USA to get treatment and plans to be on the track for the Eugene DL. “I feel very sorry because China is one of my absolute favorite places to race at and last year I had a really good performance here in Beijing. At the moment, the discomfort in the area is not where I would like it to be, the quick turnaround between races just wasn’t in my favor this time. I will come back here fully fit and race again next year”, says David per information of his management group.

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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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