NBC and World Athletics have done a long term deal. Ten years on World Championships and Diamond League.
WA and NBC for 10 years
MONACO (MON): World Athletics and NBC Sports Group have confirmed a ten-year media rights agreement that provides NBC Sports with exclusive multi-platform media rights to World Athletics Series events in the United States until the end of 2029. The new agreement extends the existing partnership, which now includes the next five editions of the World Athletics Championships, starting with the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Oregon. These championships will be held in the United States for the first time from 15-24 July 2022 at the recently reconstructed Hayward Field at the University of Oregon. It also includes other World Athletics Series events until 2029.
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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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