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Thursday, May 07, 2009

What's On The Weekend

Professional

The Qatar Athletic Super Grand Prix 2009, an IAAF Super Grand Prix meet, will be held in Doha on Friday. UniversalSports.com will have a live webcast, and Universal Sports will broadcast the meet on a one-hour delay.
Meet website / IAAF page / Webcast link
IAAF Preview / Universal Sports / USA Today / East Africa Standard / BBC

The Osaka GP 2009, an IAAF Grand Prix meet, will be held in Osaka on Saturday.
Meet website (in Japanese) / IAAF page / Webcast link
IAAF preview / Russian Athletics

The 21st Multistars, an IAAF Combined Events Challenge competition, will be held in Desenzano del Garda, Italy, on Saturday and Sunday.
Meet website (in Italian) / IAAF page
IAAF preview / Independent / BBC / Athletics Weekly / Telegraph

The GP Caixa/Unifor de Atletismo, an IAAF Permit meet, will be held in Uberlandia, Brazil, on Sunday.
Meet website (in Portugese) / IAAF page

The BIG 25 Berlin road race will take place on Sunday.
Race website / IAAF preview

The Fifth Third River Bank Run, this year's USATF 25k National Championships, will be held in Grand Rapids, MI, on Saturday.
Race website / USATF page
Grand Rapids Press / M-live

College
Conference Championships:
Southland (Friday thru Sunday)
Sun Belt (Friday thru Sunday)
Ivy League (Saturday and Sunday)
Pac-10 decathlon / heptathlon (Saturday and Sunday)

Invitationals
The Oregon Twilight will take place in Eugene on Saturday evening. A special record-attempt 4 x mile relay is the expected highlight.
Meet website
Oregonian / Statesman-Journal /

All the rest

TV
Universal Sports will broadcast the Doha Super GP meet from noon to 3 p.m. on Friday. Repeats will be at midnight on Friday and 6 p.m. Saturday.

The Big Ten Network will show the Jesse Owens Classic from 4 to 6 p.m. on Sunday.

Universal Sports will rerun the London Marathon from 2 to 4 a.m. on Sunday.

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