Sunday Times And German ARD Tape Record Kenyan Team Manager Asking For $13,000 Bribe And He’d Give Brits 24-Hour Notice Of Out-Of-Competition Doping Tests In Kenya We didn’t need a tape recording to tell us the OOC testing in Kenya wasn’t very effective as Reid Coolsaet had already told the world he was called at 8pm the night before OOC tests in Kenya and told where to report at 6 am. However, the fact the Kenyan Olympic team manager is involved is very disturbing. *AFP Article

Two Athletes Angry They Won’t Be In Rio Crush It At Beach To Beacon

LRC Maine Native Ben True (28:17) Becomes First American To Win TD Beach To Beacon 10K; Mary Keitany Blasts 30:45 Course Record After Olympic Snub True and Keitany were frustrated to be left off their respective Olympic teams and both athletes responded by earning historic wins in Cape Elizabeth, Maine on Saturday morning. True led a U.S. 1-2 as Dathan Ritzenhein (28:27) was second with sub-27:00 Kenyan William Malel Sitonik (28:31) third in his road race debut. Emily Sisson (32:20) was the top American woman in fourth.
*MB: Ben MF True 1 and Ritz 2 at Beach 2 Beacon. 1st American win ever.
*MB: Ritz is totally pumped after Beach to Beacon: “I think I can have a really special race in New York.”

Sir Walter Miler MB: Lauren Johnson (4:25) And Kyle Merber (3:54) Win As Drew Hunter (3:57.15) And Mikey Brannigan (3:57.58) PR It’s a Paralympic WR for the autistic Brannigan. *Meet Home

European Olympic News

• It’s Going To Be A Tough Olympics To Watch Live For Europeans – Bolt’s Final Will Be At 2:25am In The UK
• Super Saturday II? Can Brits Jessica Ennis-Hill, Mo Farah And Greg Rutherford All Win Gold On The Same Day Yet Again? We’ll find out next Saturday.
• Last Year, Dina Asher-Smith Was Happy With 5th In 200, This Year She Wants More: “I’m going to go try and win.”
• 4-Time World XC Silver Medalist Catherina McKiernan Writes Great Column About Doping: “I wasn’t totally naive. Towards the end of my career I was seeing performances that were unnatural.”
• Did You Know? Up Until 1956, Ireland Only Sent Men To The Olympics
• Long Jumper Ivana Spanovic Hoping To Win Serbia’s First Olympic Track Medal Ever She won Euros and 3 out of 4 Diamond League meets she competed in this year. However, she lost at Pre and World Indoors to Brittney Reese.
• Telegraph: Who Wins At 600m? Bolt Or Farah? People on letsrun.com have been discussing this for years.
• Brendan Foster: “This is the least I’ve looked forward to an Olympic games.”

Administrative / Politics

• Yelena Isinbayeva Granted Special Permission By IOC To Stand For Election To Athletes’s Commission After Missing Entry Deadline By A Month
• Brazil Interim President Booed As Rio 2016 Declared Open
• Jessica Ennis-Hill’s Coach Toni Minichiello Denied Chance To See Her On Rio Podium Minichiello is angry as UKA booked his flight home during the heptathlon medal ceremony.
• Sergey Bubka Re-Elected To IOC Executive Board

Kenya News

LRC Goes To Kenya A Legacy Lives On: A Look At The Search For Kenyan Talent At The Aloha Zane Branson Memorial 15K The late Zane Branson was so much more than an agent to some of East Africa’s top runners. In his latest piece, Andy Arnold travels to the western Kenya to visit the race that now bears Branson’s name and tells how Zane’s messages of family and teamwork live on.

• WADA Removes Kenya From List Of “Non-Compliant” Nations “Kenya has drafted and adopted anti-doping legislation now deemed to be in line with the Code,” WADA said in a statement
• Court Gives Federico Rosa His Passport Back, Allows Him To Travel To Rio For Olympics
• Asbel Kiprop Says He Wasn’t “Mentally Stable” In Monaco Due To Arrest Of Rosa But Says His Training Has Been Going Well
• Kenyans Are Very Happy With The Athlete Village In Rio
• Hyvin Kiyeng Hopes To Win Kenya’s 1st-Ever Women’s Olympic Gold In Steeple

More Olympic News

• Former NCAA Champ Genevieve LaCaze Is Focused On Making Final In Rio, Not Hijacking Opening Or Closing Ceremonies She famously highjacked Kylie Minogue‘s closing ceremonies at the CGs in 2014.
• Q&A With Genevieve LaCaze, Who Is Running Both Steeple And 5,000
• Q&A With Former Villanova Runner Sam McEntee, Who Is Running The 5,000 In Rio
• Greek Lawyer Unknowingly Qualified For Olympic Marathon He only ran 2:29 but found out he’d made the Team because if you are top 10 at IAAF gold race, it counts for the standard.
• Facebook Star Bruno Hortelano (Cornell ’13, European Champ At 200) Will Race Only 200 In Rio
• Kansas State’s Akela Jones Is A Medal Contender In Both HJ And Heptathlon For Barbados In Rio
• To Prevent Bribery Of Judges, 5 Boxing Judges Are Selected By A Computer Just 10 Minutes Before The Fight And Only 3 Count
• A Look At How The WR Has Progressed In The Olympics’ Most Iconic Event – The 100m Dash
• Caster Semenya Is One Of AFP’s 5 Women To Watch In Rio
• Full Profiles Of All 2016 Japanese Olympic Distance Runners
• Japan’s Olympic Marathon Women Talk Before Heading To Rio

More News From Japan: A Look At The Highlights From Japan’s National High School Championships From a 2:04 girls 800 to an 8:46 boys steeple, JRN has you covered.

US Distance Olympians Getting Ready For Rio

• Washington Post: “Matthew Centrowitz Follows His Father’s Footsteps To A Second Olympic Team” Centro Sr. spoke out about the Jama Aden drug bust and how his son should possibly be an Olympic medalist. “It was devastating to us, the realization that, almost 100 percent sure, someone cheated ahead of him.”
• Good Read: Outside Magazine Q&A With Meb Keflezighi Ahead Of Rio Meb says a key to staying injury free is doing “prehab instead of rehab”, talks about his goals and outlook for Rio and when he plans to finally hang ’em up.
• The Des Moines Register: Jenny Simpson’s Journey To Rio Began In Iowa
• Jenny Simpson Video Interview With Carrie Tollefson Asked about her rivalry with Shannon Rowbury, Simpson talks about how having to go up against Sally Kipyego in college made her a lot better.