RunBlogRun presents 2021 USATF Pre Trials Press Conference &#8211; Field Events Featuring: Sam Kendricks (Pole Vault), Will Clay

RunBlogRun presents 2021 USATF Pre Trials Press Conference – Field Events Featuring: Sam Kendricks (Pole Vault), Will Claye (Long Jump/Triple Jump), Brittney Reese (Long Jump), Keturah Orji (Long Jump/Triple Jump).

Sam Kendricks, breaking AR in PV, photo courtesy of vaulter magazine

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Will Claye, LJ/ TJ, photo courtesy of PUMA AG

This section was a lot of fun! Sam Kendricks and Will Claye get going, and everyone is smiling and cracking up. Enjoy it.

Keturah Orji, TJ/LJ, no double in Tokyo, photo courtesy of Track & Field News

Brittany Reese, photo courtesy of USOC

The Field event crew was a study in experience. Sam Kendricks, World Champion and Olympic silver medalist, Will Claye, Olympic silver, and Olympic bronze medalist, WC silver medalist, Brittany Reese, seven-time World Champion LJ (4 outdoors, 3 indoors plus a silver ) as well as 2 Olympic medals (London-gold, Rio-silver) and Keturah Orji (Pan Am silver in 2019, LJ), a LJ/TJ specialist and former AR at TJ!

The conversation was thoughtful and fun, covering a lot of ground.

2021 US Olympic Trials

June 18 – June 27

Hayward Field Eugene, OR

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Brittney on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DaLJBeast

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Keturah on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Keturahorji

Keturah on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ktorr1/

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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.

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

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