The Nike Presser for the NIke Prefontaine Classic is always fun and fascinating. Tom Jordan, long time meet impressario for the Nike Pre Classic, provides a weather update, a couple notes on scratches and gets to the survey the assembled media with a smile.
Then, Tom Jordan (the man who wrote the book Pre!), gets to do what he loves: talk track with the finest athletes in the world. Here are their responses, and they are worth a good listen.
Nike Pre Classic Presser: Mo Farah, Allyson Felix, Elaine Thompson, Devon Allen, Ryan Crouser, Delilah Mohammed, Devon Allen, Mondo Duplantis), photo by PhotoRun.net
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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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