Socialing The Distance featuring Tianna Bartoletta, Clip #8, (On The Blocks)

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presents

Socialing The Distance

with Larry Eder

Featuring Tianna Bartoletta,

Clip 8 – On The Blocks

In this clip, Larry gives Tianna the names of athletes and has 3 words to describe each.

Tianna Bartoletta, photo (copyright), by BBC.com

Tianna Bartoletta is a pretty amazing athlete. She is also a pretty amazing person.

A two time Olympian, Tianna took gold in the 4x100m in London 2012, taking the first leg. She also took 4th in the 100 meters. In the Winter of

2012, Tiana was a pusher on the U.S. bobsled team in the Winter Olympics.

In 2016, Tianna won the long jump and also took gold in the 4x100m in Rio 2016, again with the lead off leg.

In 2005, Tianna took gold in the long jump in Helsinki. In 2006, Tianna took the gold in the World Indoor Championships. Tianna took the bronze at 60m in the 2012 World Indoors (Istanbul) and 2014 World Indoors (Sopot).

In World Outdoors in Beijing 2015, Tianna Bartoletta took gold in the long jump once again. At the World Outdoors in London 2017, Tianna Madison took the bronze in the long jump.

In Clip 8, we asked Tianna Bartoletta to speak about how she see the importance of a good block start!

Special thanks to Tianna Bartoletta on our interview, and thanks to Mike Deering / The Shoe Addicts on producing #SocialingtheDistance.

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Author

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.

Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."

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