2011 Texas Relays: World Class Relays Expected, by Alfons Juck, note by Larry Eder

Tyson Gay, 2010 AVIVA London, photo by PhotoRun.net.

Wallace Spearmon, 2011 USA Outdoor, photo by PhotoRun.net.

The 2011 Texas Relays, happening this weekend, will have some superb early season relay teams! Watch the results this weekend to see how Tyson Gay and Wallace Spearmon, among others will run in the early season. Jeremy Wariner, Leonel Manzano are also running, and deca deity Trey Hardee will have done three events by the end of the weekend! We will keep you updated on the relays and all things athletics this weekend!

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WORLD CLASS RELAYS EXPECTED

AUSTIN (USA): 84th Clyde Littlefield Texas
Relays will see many top athletes competing. Decathlon world champion Trey
Hardee is scheduled to do long jump on Friday and 110 m Hurdles on Saturday. He
is also entered for ThursdayÂ´s pole vault. Miler Leo Manzano should run the 800 m. In the menÂ´s 4×400 m
already earlier announced were Tyson Gay and Jeremy Wariner. Their Adidas team
will be added by Lionel Larry and hurdler Michael Tinsley. Solid competition will
come from Hi Performance squad Angelo Taylor, Greg Nixon, Wallace Spearmon and
Calvin Smith. Sprint stars are expected to compete in the 4×100 m. Lauryn
Williams, Shalonda Solomon, Marshevet Myers and Bianca Knight will field a
women team in the invitational section while in the men’s invitational 4x100m
relay Wallace Spearmon, Darvis ‘Doc’ Patton, Trell Kimmons and Mike Rodgers
will put a squad together. Another team called Georgia Boys should have
hurdlers Terrence Trammell, Dexter Faulk, Angelo Taylor and long jump world
champion Dwight Phillips.

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Larry Eder

Larry Eder has had a 50-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." Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."

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