This is my daily chat with #RunBlogRun viewers and track fans on all things track & field!
This is Coffee with Larry for Thursday, August 8, 2024.
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Out topics:
1. An exciting Women’s LJ, Tara Davis-Woodhall, took gold with a leap of 7.10 meters. Malaika Mihambo, defending champion, was silver in 6.98m. Jasmine Moore, US, won the bronze in the LJ, she is only the second women to win medals in TJ and LJ in the same Olympics!
2. The Men’s javelin was a historic event. Arshad Nadeem, PAK, gave his country, Pakistan, its first gold medal in the javelin with an OR of 92.97m! Neeraj Chopra, IND, took the silver medal in
89.48m. In the bronze, Anderson Peters, GRN, threw 88.54m.
3. In the biggest upset of the Games so far, Letsile Tebogo, Botswana, won in 19.46, Kenny Bednarek, US, took silver in 19.62 and Noah Lyles, US, took bronze, in 1970. Noah Lyles admitted post race that he had COVID.
4. In the women’s 400m hurdles, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, US, took gold in the 400m h in WR 50.37. Anna Cockrell, US, ran a PB of 51.37 for the silver medal. Femke Bol, collapsed around the 300m, and finished in bronze position, in 52.15.
5. Grant Holloway won the gold medal in the 110m hurdles in 12.99, with Daniel Roberts in 13.09 and Rasheed Broadbell, JAM, 13.09. Grant had focused on turning his silver in Tokyo to gold in Paris. Grant succeeded.
This is Coffee with Larry , see you tomorrow!
Author
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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