4x400m Relays, Moscow 2013,

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OTTAWA (CAN): Athletics Canada has named a squad of 20 athletes for the World Relays. They will field men’s and women’s 4×100 and 4×400-metre relays. 3 of the bronze medal winning 4x100m team from Moscow are named; Justyn Warner, Dontae Richards-Kwok and Gavin Smellie while all of the women’s 4x100m squad who placed 6th in Moscow are on the squad; Crystal Emmanuel, Kimberley Hyacinthe, Shai Davis, Khamica Bingham.

FRANKFURT (GER): National 100m champions Verena Sailer and Julien Reus lead the 17 athlete German team for the World Relays which consists of men’s and women’s 4x100m and 4x200m teams. Other athletes in the squad are Christian Blum, Sebastian Ernst, the on form Lucas Jakubczyk, Martin Keller and the entire women’s 4x100m squad that placed 4th in Moscow; Tatjana Pinto, Yasmin Kwadwo, Inna Weit and Sailer.

NASSAU (BAH): More than 17 schools from Nassau and the Family Islands participated in the test event for the upcoming World Relays, inform bahamasathletics.com. The LOC Managing Director, Lionel Haven said he was very pleased with the running of the event, saying that “everything has gone well.”

KINGSTON (JAM): Yohan Blake and Shelly Ann Fraser-Pryce headline a powerful Jamaican squad to the inaugural IAAF World Relays scheduled for The Bahamas between May 24 and 25. Informs Jamaica Observer. The full team will be announced after later with Jamaica set to participate in all the relays except the 4x1500m events.

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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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