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Thursday, August 14, 2009, 10.30 pm, Berlin time ( 3.30 pm Chicago Time)
Tirunesh Dibaba, the Beijing 10,000/5,000 meter gold medalist, Osaka 10,000 meter gold medalist has withdrawn from the 10,000 meter final, to be held on Saturday night, August 15, 2009. This was confirmed by her management. Dibaba experienced an injury in training and has not fully recovered. No details on her decision to run the 5,000 meters, where she won titles in 2003, 2005 at WC and in Beijing in 2008.
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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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