by Larry Eder
The AVIVA London Grand Prix is three hours from now as I write this. The only two-day
meeting on the Samsung DL circuit, this meet will fill up Crystal Palace for two straight
days with 20,000 plus! The UK athletics team sure helped with 19 medals at the recent
European champs!
Highlights today will be the shot put with Christian Cantwell, the 100 meters with Tyson
Gay and Walter Dix. The 3000 meters this weekend, with Mo Farah, Euro double
champ and Bernard Lagat should be a fine one as well. Galen Rupp, after being tripped
after ten laps in the Stockholm 5,000 meters, is looking for some vindication.
RBR will cover the meet with tweets of each event plus an event by event coverage of the
meet on Saturday morning (For Friday) and Sunday morning (for Saturday night). Photo
galleries, courtesy of Victah Sailer, who is covering AVIVA, then heading to Falmouth
for Sunday, should be in Sunday as well. Also remember, Universalsports will cover
the meet as well on a delayed basis, so check out www.universalsports (now seen
on the RunningNetwork.com sites). Write to you again soon!
EME NEWS (AUG 12, 2010) UPDATE
JENSEN 807 CM
COPENHAGEN
(DEN, Aug 12): The Copenhagen Athletics Games at Osterbro Stadium
registered excellent display of shape of national record holder Morten
Jensen in long jump. He won with 807 (0.0) and had two more 8+ marks
(803, 801). It is also new stadium record. Another stadium record for
US hurdler Jeff Porter with 13.65 (+0.7) over Nigerian Selim Nurudeen
(13.69). Brazilian Fabio Gomes cleared 551 in pole vault and Jamaican
record holder Dorian Scott was the best in shot put (19.48). British
World Indoor participant Ed Aston won the Kipketer 800 m race in second
best of his career 1:47.90. Also to note women winners Latvian Ieva
Zunda at 400 m hurdles (56.71), Canadian Caroline Muir at 400 m (52.61)
and Germans in pole vault Martina Strutz over Julia Hutter (both 420).
WHO IS WHO OF ATHLETICS IN ZURICH
ZURICH
(SUI): Weltklasse Zurich Samsung Diamond League Final announced that
the fields should be the best in the world. Last tickets will be sold
this Friday from 10 am in the morning. In total 15 world leaders, 10
current olympic winners, 12 world champions and 16 European champions
are in the start list of highest quality. Participants won in total 173
individual medals at Olympic Games, World and European Championships
what is a huge number. “We do not plan only for one star in each event,
but we want the best of the bests in all events,” said meet director
Patrick Magyar. European marathon champion Viktor Rothlin will run a
special honorary lap.
OTHER NEWS
LONDON
(GBR): Insidethegames.biz informs that Fast Track, the company founded
by Britain’s Olympic silver medallist and former London 2012
vice-chairman Alan Pascoe were the latest organisation to be dragged
into the growing corruption scandal overshadowing the build-up to the
Commonwealth Games in New Delhi. A report released by India’s
Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) claimed that choosing
London-based Fast Track Sales Ltd as a consultant resulted in the
revenue loss of more than £3 million ($4.6 million) in sales of Games
broadcast rights. But Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) chief
executive Mike Hooper stronlgy defended the selection, claiming that
Fast Track were chosen to sell the worldwide broadcasting rights on
merit. Fast Track, whose major clients include BT, IHG, Sainsbury’s and
UK Athletics, are now part of the Chime Group, who brought them in 2007
for £15 million ($23 million).
LONDON (GBR): French European pole vault champion Renaud Lavillenie
revealed that after Aviva Grand Prix his next meetings until the end of
the season will be Lille EA Premium Meet, Brussels Samsung Diamond
League, IAAF Continental Cup in Split and Decanation in Annecy.
LAUSANNE (SUI): Agencies are informing that IOC said it will study
a request by IAAF to include cross-country running at the 2018 Winter
Games. The IOC programme commission will meet this september to examine
the proposal. Whether to add a new sport to the winter program will
likely be decided at the IOC session scheduled next July in Durban,
South Africa, when the next host city will be chosen.
DUBLIN (IRL): European silver medalist at 100 m Hurdles Derval
O´Rourke has been named The Irish Times / Irish Sports Council
‘Sportswoman of the Month’ for July. O’Rourke is now in the history
books, alongside her heroine Sonia O’Sullivan, for being the only Irish
athletes to win medals at more than one European Championships. Her
silver in Barcelona was just Ireland’s 11th medal in the history of the
event. Irish Federation website informs.
WARSZAWA (POL): Olympic 110m hurdles finalist Artur Noga ended his
season. The Barcelona 5th placer injured on Wednesday during a training
session. “During Wednesday’s workout I felt pain in the groin. That
strained the adductor muscle. Now I’m going for a few days to my
hometown Raciborz, and next week will begin rehabilitation. I intent to
treat all injuries to be fully healthy for the indoor season,” said
Noga for Polish Federation website.
LONDON UPDATE
LONDON (GBR): Updates to Aviva Grand Prix preview for Friday. Women
discus is having also European champion Sandra Perkovic from Croatia.
In the 800 m Polish European gold medalist Marcin Lewandowski is
missing. Also competing will be shot putters headed by World Champion,
world leader and unbeaten so far this year Christian Cantwell of USA.
In the 100 m heats Tyson Gay and Yohan Blake will run in first heat and
Walter Dix with Richard Thompson in second. Top 3 and two fastest will
qualify.
