2020 Standard Chartered Dubai Marathon Post Event Winners Presser, emceed by Tim Hutchings

The post event presser, featuring Worknesh Degefa and Olika Adugna Bekila, the womens and mens races in style. Tim Hutching, 1984 Olympian, 4th in the 5000m, was the emcee. Tim asks good questons. Degefa spoke about her stomach illness during the event, and her plans to race Boston in 2020 and defend her title.

Olika Adugna has adopted the marathon. No morer 5000rm or 10,000m. The marathon is his event. Degefa has raced Dubai four times: she won in 2017, 4th in 2018, 2nd in 2019 and won again in 2020.

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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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