Coffee With Larry, Supporters of British Athletics voice their comments...

This is Coffee With Larry for Friday, July 29, 2023.

Coffee with Larry is our almost daily podcast on the news of the world in track & field. Opinions are mine, Larry Eder, so get over it.

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If you do not like my opinions, use your words and send me an email at runblogrun@gmail.com. Please refrain from insults and keep the vitriol colorful.

Our topics today:

1. Many supporters of British Athletics are out there.

2. British Athletics has a selection process and should stick to it, say their supporters.

3. If athletes who are invited to WC by WA really wanted to go, they would achieve the British standards, say their supporters.

4. I was not casting aspersions on Jack Buckner, who I understand is a thoughtful, well-respected guy.

5. My thought was this: British Athletics has opp to give some athletes a chance to experience WC due to WA invites, why not let them go? Supporters say that those athletes seem “entitled.”

6. I agree to disagree, and my senior writer for Europe and all things British Isles, J. Stuart Weir, does not agree with me, watch for his commentary.

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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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