MARRAKECH NEWS
In the team Europe Ignisious Gaisah will replace in long jump the Olympic winner and European champion Greg Rutherford. Team captains will be French pole vaulter Renaud Lavillenie and British long distance runner Jo Pavey.
Captains of Asia-Pacific Team are Tajikistan´s hammer thrower Dilshod Nazarov and shot put queen from New Zealand Valerie Adams.
In African team will be four Moroccan athletes, all women. Steeple runner Salima El Ouali, young high jump talent Rhizlane Siba, pole vaulter Nisrine Dinar and discus thrower Amina El Mouden. All four are looking to attack their personal bests at the event, informs MAP.
Mutaz Essa Barshim arrived to Marrakech on Thursday evening. His excellent jump of 243 in Brussels made headlines and on twitter and facebook different photomontages are shown to illustrate how high he jumped actually. In one he is over a soccer goal which is 244 cm high.
(editor’s note: We arrived in Marrakech mid-day on September 11, my 56th birthday. This is a new continent for me, and a new country. The drive into Marrakech from the airport was relaxed and beautiful. On our street, Mohammed VI, there were camels just sitting down at end of several blocks. Marrakech has 850,000 souls, and is a wonderful combination of the ancient and the modern.
Watch for pictures.)
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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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