Coffee with Larry, World Athletics to Provide Prize money for Olympic Gold Medalists, An Important move for Athletics!

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This is Coffee with Larry for Wednesday, April 10, 2024.

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Our topics:

1. We are in Boston Marathon week, and the event happens on Monday, April 15, 2024. This is Boston Marathon 128!

2. Boston Marathon will be shown on ESPN from 8.30 AM Eastern to 12.30 AM Eastern. ESPN+ will show streaming from 4AM.

3. Seb Coe announced World Athletics will provide $50k US to Olympic track and field gold medalists, the first International Federation to provide money for gold medals. Here is the release:
https://www.runblogrun.com/2024/04/world-athletics-introduces-prize-money-for-olympic-gold-medallists.html

Seb Coe, World Athletics Congress, photo by World Athletics

4. Hypocrisy abounds. The IOC says nothing. Amateurism was a program made to keep working-class athletes out of sport and cater to wealthy males. We believe this is a great move!

5. Feature on the Voice of the Marathon, Larry Rawson, by Ian Eckersley, https://www.runblogrun.com/2024/04/larry-rawson-1-man-26-2-miles-50-years-of-boston-marathon-broadcasts.html please read about the Voice of the Boston Marathon for the last 50 years1

Larry Rawson, Meb Keflezighi, Boston 2022, photo courtesy of Larry Rawson

See you tomorrow on Coffee with Larry.

Author

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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