Ahmed Al Kamali (second from left), Worknesh Degefa, Peter Connerton, Julian Wynter, Tamirat Tola, HE Saeed Hareb, Paula Radcliffe, Aselefech Mergia, photo courtesy of Dubai Marathon
The press conference for the 2018 Standard Chartered Dubai Marathon was held on January 24, 2018 at the Westin Dubai Haboor City Hotel. The weather was perfect, 65 degrees and sunny. Here is part one, and it goes 24 minutes. Alan Ewens, the Communications Director of the race, emceed the event, with Pat Butcher, one of our favorite journalists asking questions of the athletes. I provided a few questions as well.
We hope that you enjoy this and and the videos from our partners at the Dubai Marathon.
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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