Coffee with Larry, Silesia brings Diamond League back after two week lay off! Women's 100 meters will pretty exciting! Wayde Van Niekerk running the 400m!

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Our topics today:

1. Silesia is going to be very hot!
2.W100m with Sharicka Jackson, Sha’Carri Richardson, and Marie Jose Ta Lou!
3. Wayde Van Niekerk is racing; watch this race too!
4. Silesia is on Peacock TV tomorrow.
5. A shout-out to
#TomasMajewski, Polish Fed VP, two-time Olympic champion in the shot put, who is building track & field in track-crazy Poland. I met Tomas in 2007, I believe, as we were heading to FBK Hengelo. I was wearing a suit. He was in a Grateful Dead t-shirt. Now, Tomas does the suit motif, building the sport. A class act.
6. Jim Thorpe won the 3-day decathlon in 1912 on this day.
7. In 2022, #JimThorpe was made the SOLE Olympic Champion in the 1912 Olympic Decathlon and pentathlon.
8. Also competing in the pentathlon was George S. Patton, Jr., who became General George Patton.
9. This is Coffee with Larry; see you on Monday at 10 AM Central, 8 AM Pacific, and 9 am Eastern.
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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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