The Continental Cup is the last major event of a very long season in 2014. adidas is a sponsor of the IAAF and their key championship events.
RunBlogRun will be in Marrakech to cover this exciting end to the 2014 athletic season.
MARRAKECH (MAR): The Continental Cup in Marrakech on September 13 and 14 will feature many of the world’s leading athletes, inform IAAF. Anita Wlodarczyk will be one of the main attractions after setting a new women’s hammer world record in Berlin. She will be joined in the European team by another world record setter in 2014, Renaud Lavillenie. Dafne Schippers, Greg Rutherford, Sifan Hassan, Ruth Beitia, Pawel Fajdek and Sandra Perkovic are the other world leaders on Europe’s team. The America’s team has a star in Caterine Ibarguen, who is the 5th best female triple jump performer all-time after her 15.31 in Monaco. The other world leaders on the Americas squad are Joe Kovacs, Javier Culson, Francena McCorory, Ajee Wilson, Dawn Harper Nelson, Kaliese Spencer, Fabiana Murer and Tianna Bartoletta. Africa’s world leaders are Jairus Birech, Genzebe Dibaba, Hellen Obiri, Nijel Amos, Caleb Ndiku, Ihab Abdelrahman and Hiwot Ayalew. Asia Pacific’s two world leading athletes are Mutaz Essa Barshim and Valerie Adams.
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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