Usain Bolt has run at the Golden Spike for several years of his career. He did the following video for the Golden Spike Meet in Ostrava, to promote the June 17, 2014 event! A fun video, one gets the point about how much Bolt enjoys this meet and how much the fans, of all ages, enjoy Usain Bolt. It is pretty fun to watch the little kids’ faces as they see this big guy standing next to them!
The truth is, all meets should do such videos with their top athletes. Keep it light, keep it fun, but get the word out. Never expect that runners will just come if they see the meet on a calendar.
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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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