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What To Watch: Running & Track Events on TV, Webcast

Posted August 28th, 2008 at 7:46 AM by Jesse Squire

Section: Columns, What To Watch

Track and Running on TV Here are the track & running-related events coming your way for the next week. As always, all times are EDT; if you know of anything I’ve missed, please add it in the comments section.

A brief programming note: Olympic sprint champion Maurice Greene will be among the contestants on the seventh season of ABC’s “Dancing With The Stars”. The season premiers on September 22.

AF Golden League: Weltklasse Zurich
ESPN Classic, 4-6 p.m. Friday (replays at 7 a.m. Saturday)
CBC, 4-6 p.m. Saturday (replays Monday at 12:30 a.m.)
Trackshark.com, 2 p.m. (live)
The penultimate event in the IAAF’s Golden League series is nicknamed “The Olympics in One Night” as it is the deepest invitational in the world. Pamela Jelimo (800 meters) and Blanka Vlasic (high jump) are the two athletes remaining in the hunt for the $1 million jackpot. Others slated to run include double Olympic champions Usain Bolt and Kenenisa Bekele.
Meet Website

Aviva British Grand Prix
Universal Sports and UniversalSports.com, 9:55 a.m. Sunday (live)
The IAAF’s World Athletics Tour comes to Gateshead, England. Top Americans slated to compete include Tyson Gay, Shannon Rowbury and Bernard Lagat.
Meet Website

Running
YES Network, 11:30 a.m. Friday, 6 a.m. Saturday, 1:30 a.m. Sunday, 6 a.m. Monday, 8 a.m. Tuesday
Tune in to SportFilm’s monthly road-racing highlights show.

A Shot at Glory: Wallace Spearmon Jr.
MOJO HD, 5 p.m. Thursday and 7 p.m. Saturday
A profile of the Olympic sprinter.

Chariots of Fire
MOJO HD, 8 p.m. Saturday, midnight Sunday, 10 p.m. Monday
The 1981 Best Picture winner, a fictionalized account of 1924 Olympic sprint champions Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell and their teammates, is presented in brilliant high-definition.