Breaking: Rosa Charged With Doping Rita Jeptoo; Raid In Kenya

• Italian Agent Federico Rosa Charged With Six Counts Of Doping Athletes, Including Rita Jeptoo Rosa manages many top Kenyans, including Asbel Kiprop and London Marathon champ Jemima Sumgong.
  *Just Yesterday Rosa Was Requesting His Passport Be Released So He Could Travel To Meets He said if he couldn’t, his athletes’ “performance would be affected.” Hmmm …
  *MB: Big Doping Stories
• Abeba Aregawi Could Compete In Rio After Her Suspension For Failed Meldonium Test Is Lifted The decision will be made by the Swedish Olympic committee and coach.
• Anti-Doping Officials Raid Kenyan Olympic Camp In Eldoret The officials arrived at the camp at about 2am but could not access the facility for more than an hour as their authenticity was verified. They took blood and urine samples from all athletes at the camp.
• IOC President Thomas Bach Says Russian LJer Darya Klishina Will Compete Under The Russian Flag, Not As A Neutral Athlete In Rio As for how whistleblower Yulia Stepanova could compete, the IOC Ethics Commission is “resolving it.”
• Turkish 1,500 Doper Asli Çakır Alptekin Was Featured In Last ARD Documentary Admitting To Doping And Making Allegations Against The Diacks Apparently Lamine Diack asked her for a $725,000 bribe to cover up her positive doping test.
  *Full 7-Minute ARD Video
• Golfer Rory McIlroy Says Golf Needs To Do More Rigorous Drug Testing McIlroy said he could use HGH and get away with it with the lack of testing now.

Post Olympic Trials News

• The Journal News: Mary Cain Falls Short In Bid For 1,500 Olympic Spot Her local coach John Henwood said, “We ran out of weeks (for training). We just didn’t get there to handle three days in a row. The last lap, her legs weren’t there but we’ll build from this.”
• Colleen Quigley, Vashti Cunningham, Allyson Felix And Dayra Klishina Star In New Nike Sports Bra Ad On Instagram
• DyeStat: “Sydney McLaughlin Overcame Self Doubt On Path To Olympic Team”
• Alberto Salazar On Galen Rupp’s 5K: “He went for it. What he has to do for Rio is get a little more speed in his legs, and keep it going.”
• Q&A With Former Steeplechaser Anna Willard, Who Came Out Of Semi-Retirement This Year To Try To Make The Trials She fell a bit short as her season’s best was 2:04.18.
• Sports Illustrated’s Chris Chavez’s 22 Takeaways From The OT
• Register-Guard: Most Memorable Moments From The Trials
• Register-Guard: “There Will Be Plenty Of Oregon Ties To US Track Team In Rio”

Upcoming Diamond League Action

• July 15: Monaco Provisional Entry Lists Available
  *MB: Monaco 1500m Men
• July 23: Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Vs. Tianna Bartoletta And Tori Bowie In London DL 100m Mo Farah will face a deep 5K field and apparently Jenny Meadows is delaying her retirement to run her last race in the 800. Dafne Schippers and Elaine Thompson are in the 200.
• August 25th: Newly Crowned Euro Champions Lead Fields For Lausanne DL Meet Brittney Reese vs. Ivana Spanovic in the LJ.

General Olympic News: Is Olympic Golf A Joke?

• Golfer Roy McIlroy Says He Might Not Watch Olympic Golf Tournament, Instead Watching “Stuff That Matters”
  *World #3 Golfer Jordan Spieth Withdraws From Rio Over Zika International Golf Federation president criticized players for Zika “over-reaction.”
• Rio Mayor Laments “Missed Opportunity” To Showcase Brazil Positively In Olympic Buildup
• Italian Prime Minister Urges Rome Mayor To Withdraw Opposition To 2024 Olympic Games Bid
  *Rome 2024 Organizers Hopeful After Promising To Discuss Bid Changes With New Mayor

Euro Champs Are Over *Results

• IAAF Final Day Recap: Poland Goes 1-2 In The 800 As Adam Kszczot Wins In 1:45.18 Last year’s 1:42 sensation Amel Tuka (1:45.74) and France’s Pierre-Ambrose Bosse (1:45.79) were back in 4th and 5th. Germany’s Gesa-Felicitas Krause dominated the steeple in 9:18. Gianmarco Tamberi took the HJ in 2.32m, Llias Fifa lead Spain to a 1-2 finish in the 5K. Poland’s Angelika Cichocka took the 1,500 in 4:33.00 over Sifan Hassan (4:33.76). Sara Moreira (70:19) and Tadesse Abraham (62:03) won the half marathon.
• UK Men’s 4 X 100 And Women’s 4 X 400 Take Gold The Netherlands took the women’s 4 x 100 and Belgium men (with three Borlee brothers) the 4 x 400.
• GB’s Former World 800 Medalist Jenny Meadows Announces Her Retirement After Injury At Euro Champs Ends Her Olympic Hopes (link fixed) “I’ve given my all and it’s taken a lot from me. I definitely won’t miss it.”
• British High Jumper Isobel Pooley Will Miss Rio Due To Ankle Injury After Failing To Make Euro Final A specialist told her she “would be made to compete” through it.
• Ireland’s Ciara Mageean Gets Euro 1,500m Bronze
• Cathal Dennehy Talks To Mageean’s Coach, Jerry Kiernan, Who Says He’d “Blame Himself” If She Failed
• European Athletics President Svein Arne Hansen Will Raise “Country Hopping” Issue With The IAAF Turkey is being accused of “buying” its way to success.
• Ireland Independent Article Supporting Fionnuala McCormack’s Outburst Against Citizenship Changes

Doping Updates From Russia And Kenya

• IAAF Bars All Russian Track Athletes Except Long Jumper Darya Klishina From Rio Klishina is based in Florida and is therefore outside of the tainted Russian testing program. *2nd Article
• IAAF Statement Apparently 136 applications from Russian athletes were received, but all were rejected.
• New ARD Documentary Alleges EPO Use By Kenyan And British Athletes In Iten Training Camp The report implicated Kenyan athletes and three unnamed British runners. The doctors featured in the documentary offering drugs to an undercover reporter have been arrested by Kenyan police.
  *Video: 9-Minute ARD Video
  *Discuss
• UK Anti-Doping Launches Investigation Into Claims Of Doping In Kenya Training Center Reportedly this is Lornah Kiplagat‘s training center and her husband said athletes don’t even have refrigerators in their rooms. A statement from UK Athletics called the allegations “vague and unsubstantiated.”

The HS Sprint Action On Friday Was Unreal

LRC Friday Sprint Recap: High Schoolers Michael Norman & Noah Lyles Steal The Show Again; LaShawn Merritt 19.74 WL; Brianna Rollins (12.34) Wins 100H As Keni Harrison Is Just 6th Both Lyles (20.26) and Norman (20.21, ahead of Justin Gatlin) won their semifinals, just as they won their first-round heats on Thursday. Rollins won a loaded 100 hurdles despite running part of her race in Queen Harrison‘s lane; Kristi Castlin and World Indoor champ Nia Ali join her on Team USA.

• Upsets Abound In Women’s 100 Hurdles Final
• A Look At The Olympians That Had To Use AthleteBiz.us And GoFundMe To Make It To Rio One is TJer Andrea Geubelle.
• Mason Finley Wins A Men’s Discus Competition Held In Conditions That Many Competitors Thought Were Too Wet “You literally couldn’t hold on to the discus. … You can’t throw in conditions like that.”
• Aries Merritt Runs 6th-Fastest Time In 1st Round Of Men’s 110H (13.64)
• Allyson Felix Advances To Women’s 200 Semifinals
• Oregon Men’s Distance Coach Andy Powell Discusses Star Recruit Drew Hunter’s Decision To Turn Pro

Day 7 At US Trials

LRC Emma Coburn Wins A Dramatic Steeplechase Final As Missourians Courtney Frerichs And Colleen Quigley Rally Late To Nab The Final Two Olympic Spots Coburn remains the queen of the steeple in the US but Courtney Frerichs (9:20.92) and Colleen Quigley (9:21.29) both came up big and PRed in the most important race of their lives to punch their tickets to Rio.

LRC Men’s And Women’s 1,500 Heats: Much Ado For Nothing As Nine Races Are Run To Eliminate Eight Athletes Will Leer was the biggest name to go home. Interviews with nearly all the 1,500 stars.

LRC  Sara Hall Talks Adoption And Ryan Hall Being Back On The Track: “He Can Still Throw Down” link fixed

Previous Trials News

LRC Take The Tour: What’s It Like To Make Team USA? The sad truth is not everyone can achieve their Olympic dreams, but at least now you can get a glimpse of what it would be like to make Team USA.

LRC US Olympic Trials Women’s 1,500 Preview: Simpson & Rowbury Should (Probably) Make It? Who Will Emerge In The Battle For Third? Brenda Martinez is doubling back from the 800. Morgan Uceny is the defending Trials champ. Cory McGee made the World Indoors team. Which one will step up? And how will 4:07 HS junior Kate Murphy fare against the pros?

LRC US Olympic Trials Men’s 1,500 Preview: Can Anyone Stop Centro? And Will Anyone Else Get The Standard? Only five guys – Matthew Centrowitz, Kyle Merber, Ben Blankenship, Robby Andrews and Leo Manzano – have the Olympic standard. Unless someone runs faster than 3:36.20 this week, three of those five will be your team to Rio.

LRC US Olympic Trials Men’s 5,000 Final Preview: Who Will Close Best In A Wide-Open Race? Ryan Hill is the defending champ but bombed in his only race outdoors. Galen Rupp looked shaky in the prelims. Ben True, Hassan Mead and Eric Jenkins all struggled in the 10k. Bernard Lagat is 41 years old. This race is full of question marks, which makes for a compelling final.

Jama Aden Gets Arrested

LRC Jama Aden Doping Raid Update: How Might The Raid Impact Mo Farah, The Dibabas And Nike? Today, we look at some of the connections between Aden and the sport’s biggest names like Genzebe Dibaba, Tirunesh Dibaba, Mo Farah, and Nike and wonder what type of impact, if any, the scandal will have on them. We also reveal for the first time in the English press that Mo Farah trained in Sansabell, Spain in 2014, a fact his agent didn’t even know, but claimed to be more than 100 miles away in France. Why?

LRC Everything You Need To Know About The Jama Aden Doping Raid That Took Place With Three Dibaba Sisters Being Present We give you the scoop on the biggest doping scandal in distance running’s history and the biggest non-country-related (i.e. Russia) doping scandal since BALCO. In the near future, we’ll have much more for you, including “What does this mean for Nike, Mo Farah and Alberto Salazar, who all have ties to Aden?”