Pretty hard to believe but it's true as I came across this interesting article when I was reading African papers searching for links to provide you free of charge.
Someone smarter than me has to be able to think of a way than making Kenyans chase qualifying times in the distance events. Just let them enter whatever three they'd like.
The women's 10,000 is really hurting right now. So we have no Defar and Dibaba as they haven't raced all year, Kenya has zero qualifiers and Ayana and Dibaba seem focused on the 5000. You'd think one of them would have run the Ethiopian 10,000 trials so they could cruise to gold.
Oh well. Someone has to win a medal. Go Molly!!
And before I hit post, I decided to do a little research. Sure enough the Kenyan paper is wrong. The qualifying window began last January so Kenya has 2 10,000 qualifiers - Saina and Kipyego.
But thanks for clicking on the link. I think we earned 1/2 of one penny.