your adidas moment for 9 September: Continental Cup News, from EME News

The Grade Stade de Marrakech, site of (September 13-14, 2014) the IAAF Continental Cup

A fun way to end the season: Take one athlete, each event, best from each continent, and let them duke it out. Two fun days in Marrakech to end the 2014 track season!

IAAF CONTINENTAL CUP NEWS

MARRAKECH (MAR): There will be nearly $3 million in prize money on offer at the Continental Cup which will take place this weekend. A total of US $2,900,000 will be paid by the IAAF. Individual winners will receive $30,000, while the prize money for 2nd to 8th is as follows; 15,000, 10,000, 7000, 5000, 3000, 2000, 1000. $30,000 will be awarded to the winning relay teams while 20,000, 10,000 and 8000 will go to the 2nd, 3rd and 4th placing teams respectively. US $50,000 will be awarded for a world record. The prize structure means that every athlete competing will win an amount of USD.

MARRAKECH (MAR): From 32 fresh IAAF Diamond League winners in total 22 are expected to compete in Marrakech. Adding to it also two IAAF Hammer Challenge winners (Pars and Wlodarczyk) makes the list more impressive. Americas Team has 10 DR winners (3 men Edward, Merritt and Tinsley and 7 women Campbell-Brown, Williams-Mills, Harper-Nelson, Spencer, Murer, Bartoletta and Ibarguen). Africa offers 6 such names (4 men Amos, Ndiku, Birech and Mokoena but he in triple and two women Sum and Ayalew), Europe has in team 4 Diamond Trophy winners (Lavillenie, Kuchina, Perkovic and Spotakova) and Asia/Pacific team two with Mutaz Barshim and Valerie Adams.

MARRAKECH (MAR): The Local Organising Committee of Marrakech 2014 and the IAAF will hold a press conference on Friday at 12pm at the press center of the Grand Stade de Marrakech.

MARRAKECH (MAR): Initially on the track in Split 2010 Europe was the Cup winner but unfortunately afterwards due to doping cases results were modified and as the first winner of this competition was confirmed the team of Americas. Their final revised score was 422.5 points over Europe 417, Africa 293 and Asia-Pacific 290.5.

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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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