2019 Minsk Diary: More than 100 hours of worldwide televised coverage of The Match

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At least 16 international broadcasters will be televising the inaugural edition of The Match Europe v USA in Minsk, Belarus on 9-10 September.

According to the latest broadcasting intentions provided by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), international broadcasters will be showing approximately 108 hours combined of live or recorded coverage of The Match which features three reigning Olympic champions, six reigning world champions and 15 reigning European champions on Team Europe.

There will also be live streaming of both days of competition* through the All-Athletics platform which will be provided by European Athletics’ International Partner Eurovision Sport.

The stream will be accompanied by expert English-language commentary and there will also be dedicated streams for each field event across the two days of competition complemented by video on demand.

The Match will air live each day in the United States from 12:00-3:00pm ET concurrently on NBCSN and NBC Sports Gold.

There will also be extensive coverage of The Match on the European Athletics website as well as across European Athletics’ Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube accounts.

*Please note the stream will be geo-blocked in New Zealand and Latin America

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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.

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