Coffee with Larry, Athing Mu to focus on 800m, Sydney McLaughlin to focus on 400m flat, Huge Women’s 100m in Silesia on July 16, 2023

This is Coffee with Larry for Thursday, July 13, 2023.

Coffee with Larry is the daily news podcast from #RunBlogRun, published most days of the week when Larry is at home (#Larrenhalle) or traveling (#planetEarth).

Our topics today:

1. Big 100 meters in Silesia, Poland, on July 16, 2023. Sha’Carri Richardson, Marie Jose Ta Lou, and Sharicka Jackson! Wow!

2. First big meet after the USATF Outdoors.

3. Diamond League meetings are starting up again.

4. The World Champs is August 19-27, 2023, in Budapest, Hungary.

5. The season is truly heating up.

6. Rai Benjamin noted on social media that he had not worked out in 8 weeks. And the guy runs 46.62 for the 400m hurdles! Amazing!

7. Athing Mu focuses on the women’s 800m after a strong 1,500m PB and finishes at the USATF Outdoors. Sinclaire Johnson will make the team now.

8. Sydney McLaughlin will run the 400m flat in Budapest, with no defense of the 400m hurdles, per a story in LA Times with Bobby Kersee.

Watch for Coffee with Larry on Friday, July 14, 2023!

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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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