Coffee with Larry, April 20, 2024, Xiamen DL opens Diamond League, Kip Keino Classic impresses, and London Marathon is a day away!

This is my daily chat with #RunBlogRun viewers and track fans on global track & field!

This is Coffee with Larry for Thursday, April 20, 2024.

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Our topics:

1. A fantastic opener at the Kip Keino Classic was held on April 20, 2024, in Nairobi, Kenya.

2. The opening of the Diamond League, which happened in Xiamen, China, on April 20, 2024. This is the first of two
meets in China in one week.

3. Mondo Duplanis set a WR in the pole vault, his eighth world record, clearing 6.24 meters or 20 feet, five and one-half inches.

Mondo Duplantis opened the 2024 Outdoor with his WR of 6.24m, 20 feet, 5 and 1/2 inches, photo by Matthew Quine for Diamond League AG

4. Gudaf Tsegay ran a 3:50.30 for a world leader at 1,500 meters.

Gudaf Tsegay ran a WL at 1,500m, with her 3:50.30, the #3 all-time, photo by Matthew Quine for Diamond League AG

5. Christian Coleman ran 10.13 for the 100 meters.

Christian Coleman, 100 meters, Xiamen DL, photo by Matthew Quine for Diamond League AG

6. Marco Arop ran 1:43.61 for the 800 meters in a very tight race.

7. Torrie Lewis won the women’s 200 meters in Xiamen, upsetting Sha’Carri Richardson with her 22.96 PB. Torrie is 19 years old.
8. London Marathon is Sunday, April 21, 2024, you can watch it on FloTrack in North America.

See you tomorrow on #CoffeewithLarry.

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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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