Coffee With Larry, Athing Mu, Will She or Won't She? Ed Murphey Classic, World Champs, Seb Coe stays out of the mess, Joan Benoit Samuelson's 39th anniversary of LA Olympic Victory!

This is Coffee With Larry for Saturday, August 5, 2023.

Coffee With Larry is the daily podcast for RunBlogRun, and the opinions are obviously mine, so either comment on our comment spot, email me at [email protected], or think happy thoughts.

Our topic today:

1. The Ed Murphey Classic was a wonderful success; we will cover it Monday.
2. Lots of repercussions from Athing Mu stories.
3. Athletics Chat 101 was recorded on Friday between Stuart Weir and myself.
4. Athletics Chat will be back.
5. The World Champs, event by event, we will see a tremendous level of competition.
6. Seb Coe did not wander into the controversy on British Athletics not accepting the WA invitations.

7. On August 5, 1984, Joan Benoit Samuelson won the LA Olympic marathon, the first Olympic marathon for women. I watched it on a portable TV (color), hoping that Joannie could hold her lead that she had taken just after 3 miles, as Grete Waitz, Ingrid Kristensen, and Rosa Mota followed, too far back to make a move. Joannie has given back much to the sport and realizes, better than many, how many women and men worked to get the Olympic marathon for women into the IOC’s mindset.

See you Monday, August 7, at #CoffeeWithLarry.

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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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