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KIPROP TO TEST HIMSELF AT 800 M

PARIS (FRA): World leader and World champion at 1500 m Kenyan Asbel Kiprop will compete on Saturday at Areva IAAF Diamond League meet in the 800m in preparation for a fast race in the 1500 m at Herculis meeting later in July. He will face World leader here Nijel Amos of Botswana who will compete for first time since Pre Classic top time and win. Also running Abubaker Kaki, both top Poland runners Marcin Lewandowski and Adam Kszczot. Interesting to see home star Pierre-Ambroise Bosse and Cuban Yeimer Lopez who posted so far fast times in solo races in Scandinavia and is unbeaten this year. Young Kenyan Robert Biwott won the Shanghai leg of Diamond League and should be also observed carefully.

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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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