Coffee With Larry, Watch the Florence Diamond League on Peacock, FBK Hengelo on Jun3-4, 2023, Sifan Hassan doubling at 10,000m/1,500m in Hengelo!

This is Coffee with Larry for Friday, June 2, 2023.

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We recorded this podcast at Gate B19 at the Chicago
O’Hare International at 8 AM Central time US. We just got off a red-eye from
Las Vegas to Chicago, and now, heading home to Madison, Wisconsin.

Our topics today:

1. The Florence Diamond League, the third event in the Diamond league series,
will be held on June 2. Peacock will showcase meet at 2 pm Eastern US, 1 PM
Central US, and 11 AM Paciic time.

2. Faith Kipyegon is looking to run very fast, especially after Gudaf Tsegay running a 3:54 at Rabat.

3. Fred Kerley has won everything this season at 100m, 200m and 400m. He is racing in Florence today at 100 meters.

4. After Florence DL, FBK Games has 10000m on Saturday, June 3 evening, and it is free to attend.

5. Hassan will come back on Sunday, June 4, to run 1,500 meters at FBK Games in Hengelo, The Netherlands.

6. Sifan Hassan seems to be focused on mimicking the WA schedule for Budapestat 2023, with 10,000m/1,500m.

7. June 9 is Paris Diamond League. Sydney McLaughlin is running the 400m flat.

8. Oslo is on June 15, 2023. Mondo Duplantis will be there, as will a spectacular men’s pole vault.

9. NB Nationals is June 15-18, 2023, you can register at www.nbnationals.com (sponsored)

10. Atlanta Peachtree can be register only until June 4, 2023! www.atlantatrackclub.org/peachtree (sponsored)

11. Brooks has been a long time sponsor of RunBlogRun. We ask that you support our sponsors, www.brooksrunning.com

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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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