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Tokyo 2025

World Athletics Championships

Day 4 Review

Thumbnail graphic created thanks to Mattia Ozbot

The 2025 World Athletics Championship was one of my favorites in all fifteen that I have attended, which goes back to 1995 ( I missed 1997).

The sixty thousand fans in the Tokyo Olympic stadium kept the evening sessions loud and fun! Japanese athletes were recieved by the fans with huge applause. The heat and humidity most days and nights added to the challenging nature of the World Championships. Tokyo was a fantastic host, with lovely people, wonderful support in the hotels, great ramen in the small local ramen houses, and fans who had missed the Olympics and loved the chance to celebrate global sports!

Faith Kipeyegon showed us how to race the 1,500 meters on Day 4! Enjoy the coverage!

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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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