Hannah England, 2011 WC 1,500m silver medalist, photo by PhotoRun.net
Hannah England, World Championship silver medalist at the 1,500m, will not be running at the UK Athletics Aviva Trials. England sustained an achilles injury when she was spiked at the FBK Hengelo Meeting last month. She is recovering well, but will not race until the Aviva London GP in mid August.
Chris Thompson, Mo Farah, 2010 European Champs, photo by PhotoRun.net
Chris Thompson, the European silver medalist at 10,000m, will not be running in the AVIVA Trials due to a back injury. Thompson trains in Eugene, Oregon with the Nike Oregon Track Club.
The story was featured on the UK Athletics site today: http://www.uka.org.uk/media/news/june-2012/19-06-12-england-trials/
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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