This is Coffee With Larry for Thursday, July 20, 2023.
This is the daily podcast on RunBlogRun.
Our topics today:
1. The Monaco Herculis DL is one of my favorites each and every year.
2. The Stade Louis II is a wonderful stadium with about 15,000 seats and a very good view line.
3. The levels of performance will be very high.
4. Karsten Warholm with Alison Dos Santos in 400m hurdles.
Karsten Warholm, Wanda Diamond League Athletics Meeting Herculis EBS July 21, 2023, Monaco, photo by Kevin Morris
5. Sydney McLauglin-Levrone in 400m flat with Natalie Kaczmarek.
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, Wanda Diamond League Athletics Meeting Herculis EBS July 21, 2023, Monaco, photo by Kevin Morris
6. The Women’s 100m hurdles has Nia Ali, 2019 WC, Keni Harrison, former WR holder, Olympic silver medalist, and Pai Skrzyszowska, European champ.
Shericka Jackson, Wanda Diamond League Athletics Meeting Herculis EBS July 21, 2023, Monaco, photo by Kevin Morris
7. The Men’s 5000m features Jacob Kiplimo, Berihu Aregawi, Mohammed Ketir, Mo Ahmed, and Jimmy Gressier.
8. Big PV with Mondo Duplantis and Sam Kendricks.
Mondo Duplantis, Wanda Diamond League Athletics Meeting Herculis EBS July 21, 2023, Monaco, photo by Kevin Morris
9. Women’s 200m features Gabby Thomas and Shericka Jackson!
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.
