Coffee With Larry, USA announces 139 member team for Budapest! Sydney McLaughlin Levrone vs Femke Bol on Sept 8 at Memorial Van Damme!

This is Coffee With Larry for Wednesday, August 9, 2023.

This is our almost daily podcasts on RunBlogRun, we discuss the challenges of the day in our sport of track and field.

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Our topics of the day!

1. Talk about a “Clash of the Titans”, the Allianz Memorial Van Damme has Sydney McLaughlin Levrone and Femke Bol battling over the 400m hurdles for the first time since the World Champs in Eugene.

Sydney McLaughlin Levrone, Wanda Diamond League Athletics Meeting
Herculis EBS
July 21, 2023, Monaco, photo by Kevin Morris

2. The Van Damme is one of my favorite meets, held in King Badouin stadium near Brussels; the Memorial Van Damme is held in honor of 1976 Olympic Montreal double silver medalist (800m/1500m) Ivo Van Damme, who was killed in an auto accident in Dec. 1976.

Femke Bol, New Balance Indoor Grand Prix Track & Field
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
February 3, 2023
World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meeting, photo by Kevin Morris

3. USATF released the list of their 139-member team for Budapest; you can read our post here: https://www.runblogrun.com/2023/08/usa-track-field-names-roster-of-139-athletes-for-budapest-23.html

4. Check out this piece by Deji Ogeyingbo on Sha’Carri Richardson, https://www.runblogrun.com/2023/07/reborn-shacarri-richardson-comes-back-from-the-brink-and-is-now-ready-to-become-the-world-champion.html

Sha’Carri Richardson, USATF Outdoor Track and Field Championships held at Hayward Field, University of Oregon, July 6-10, 2023, photo by Kevin Morris

5. Faith Kipyegon, who will challenge her? Check out this piece! https://www.runblogrun.com/2023/08/who-can-really-challenge-faith-kipyegon-in-budapest.html

6. Sam Fariss sent us this piece on the women sprinters and middle-distance runners for Team USA going to Budapest: https://www.runblogrun.com/2023/08/the-female-runners-and-sprinters-of-team-usa.html

Alicia Monson, USATF Outdoor Track and Field Championships held at Hayward Field, University of Oregon, July 6-10, 2023, photo by Katie Moon

7. You will be able to watch the World Champs in Budapest on NBC, Peacock, and CNBC if you live in the former colonies.

8. You will be able to watch the World Champs in Budapest on BBC if you live across the pond.

9. In Europe, fans will watch WC on European Broadcasting in their local countries. In some countries, fans have to watch on selected paid cable networks.

Silver medal in the Mixed Relays, The Netherlands team, Femke Bol, Lieke Klaver, Liemarvin Bonavacia, Tony Van Dieppen, photo by Kevin Morris

10. The World Champs begins August 19, I can not wait!

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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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