I was writing about the IAAF council meeting, when Simon Kupers, an FT columnist who lives in Paris, noted that he heard a sound like fireworks. He then noted it might not be fireworks.
And then, Paris was attacked in six different locations. This story is gives one a feel of what one young adult felt after living through such carnage.
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‘You’re in a bar, then there are dead people’
One Parisian man remembers the moment a normal evening in his local bar turned into a night he will never forget.
Lucas Minisini | | France, Europe, ISIL, Politics, War & Conflict
Paris, France – On Rue Oberkampf, 300 metres from Le Bataclan, a man walks out of a florist’s shop, with a white rose in his hand, and towards the nearby cordon of police who surround the concert hall that was the scene of one of the attacks that struck Paris on Friday evening.
Inside the shop, the florist stands behind the counter. A tall, skinny man, he seems to go about his work mechanically.
“Selling roses is our duty right now,” he says, quietly. “This is why I opened my shop this morning. And we need to keep it running.”
To read this entire story: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/11/paris-attacks-witness-151114211349172.html
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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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