Coffee With Larry, The Paris Diamond League Meeting was Excellent, Brooks PR Invite is June 14, Nothing Comes Close, Oslo DL comes June 15,

This is Coffee With Larry for Sunday, June 11, 2023.

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Our topics:

1. The Paris Diamond League meeting on June 9, 2023, has been the finest
meet of the year.
2. The first world record, first in the 5,000 meters for women, which was an actual real race, with Letensebet Gidey and Faith Kipyegon. Kipyegon ran 14:05.20.
3. One world best, the two-mile by Jakob Ingebrigtsen, had the Norwegian shatter the 26-year-old record of Dan Komen, who ran 2 miles in 7:54.10.
4. The final world record was the Men’s steeplechase by Lamecha Girma, who ran
7:52.11.
5. Noah Lyles ran the most remarkable race of his career, with 100 meters that had meaning in each and every step of that one-hundred-meter run.
6. at full fitness, Gabby Thomas ran a splendid 200 meters to win the women’s furlong against a tough crowd.
7. The 20,000 French fans were rewarded in Stade Charlety with a tremendous two-hour Diamond League meeting and six hours of wonderous track & field.
8. The Paris DL showed the promise of the sport.
9. The Brooks PR Invite, to be held on June 14, 2023, and will feature some of the finest high school athletes in the land.
10. The streaming on Brooks PR Invite will be awesome.
11. The NB Outdoors will be held June 15-18, 2023, at www.nbnationals.com (sponsored).
12. The Peachtree Road race is the biggest 10k in the world and will be held on July 4, 2023. www.atlantatrackclub.org/peachtree (sponsored).
13. Brooks Running has sponsored our media content since 1990, first as American Athletics, then, in 1994, with American Track & Field, and since 2006, on RunBlogRun. Please consider Brooks for your running shoe needs.
14. Have a great day, and please read our NCAA Track & field coverage with Dave Hunter, Sam Fariss and the photos of How Lao.
15. See you tomorrow.
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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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