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Report: Kenya's Olympic Team Was Torpedoed By Their Own Comically Corrupt Officials<em></em>
Kenya finished the Rio Olympics with 13 track and field medals, second only to the United States who finished with 32. That’s a gulf, not a gap, but after reading details about how thoroughly the team was sold up the river by their own Olympic committee, I’m impressed that Kenya managed that many....
Kenyan Track Coach Learns The Hard Way That There's No Free Lunch In Rio
A Kenyan track coach was caught yesterday using a runner’s accreditation, apparently to get a free meal in the Olympic Village, and booted from the Olympics. He’s an idiot, yes, but he wasn’t the only idiot. This story resonates....
Kenyan Track Coach Reportedly Posed As Runner To Give A Fake Urine Sample To Doping Control
Earlier this week, Kenyan Athletics’ Michael Rotich was detained by Kenyan police on accusations that he was soliciting bribes from coaches in exchange for warning them about approaching doping tests. This afternoon, Kenya’s Citizen TV reported that track coach John Anzrah was caught posing as an at...
Anti-Doping Agency Says Kenya Is In The Midst Of A Doping Crisis; No One Cares
The run-up to this summer’s Olympics in Rio have been a disaster, between the prevalence of the Zika virus, Brazil’s political upheaval, and deadly problems with Rio’s Olympic infrastructure. It doesn’t help matters that the World Anti Doping Agency (WADA) is in the midst of a meltdown, with all man...
Why Eliud Kipchoge Is The World's Best Distance Runner
Sometimes I like technology, in this case because YouTube is going to be invaluable in explaining how Kenya’s Eliud Kipchoge calmly sliced through Sunday’s London Marathon, covering Her Majesty’s 26.2 miles in 2:03:05, the second fastest (by eight tiny seconds) marathon ever run on a record-eligible...
Something Sketchy Is Going On Between Nike And The Kenyan Athletics Federation
Kenyan runners have dominated men’s and women’s distance running for decades now, and they own 18 world records, from the middle distances to the marathon. Nike has an exclusive sponsorship agreement with the Kenyan athletics federation (Athletics Kenya), wherein they pay a boatload of money for Ken...
Report: Colts' Daniel Adongo Benched As Police Investigate Distress Call
Daniel Adongo, a fringe outside linebacker for the Indianapolis Colts, was benched by the Colts yesterday, with the reason listed as “not injury related.” According to a report from the Indianapolis Star, Adongo’s benching was because the police were called to his house on Thursday morning. As to wh...
Four Ways To Quit: Run Long Like The Kenyans
Justin Lagat, who lives in Kenya, in fact, is Kenyan, wrote a piece for RunBlogRun on the four ways in which Kenyans do their long runs. Since our very lean friends from the Rift Valley own distance running, this post, I thought, held great promise—secrets revealed, myths busted, the spleen-witherin...
Will Rita Jeptoo's Failed Drug Test Unravel Kenyan Running?
The news du annum in running is that one of the top distance runners in the world, Kenyan Rita Jeptoo, tested positive for the performance enhancing drug EPO in an out-of-competition evaluation. Jeptoo won the Oct. 12 Chicago Marathon, and was due to travel to New York on Oct. 31 to accept the $500,...
S.O.S.: Kenyan Runner Allegedly Kidnapped Son, Threatened To Kill Wife
Asbel Kiprop, the Kenyan Olympic champion in the 1500-meters and two-time world champion ('11, '13), was accused over the weekend of a wide range of crimes, including impregnating a 16-year-old, abusing and threatening said child-bride, and then kidnapping the child. Who says the NFL has the market ...
Kenyan Runner Gets Magic Legs
Marko Cheseto, a Kenyan distance runner recruited by the University of Alaska-Anchorage, made national news in November 2011 when he disappeared into the wilderness. Found two days later suffering from severe frostbite and hypothermia, both legs had to be amputated. Almost three years later, Cheseto...
Kenya Bros Explain Kenyan Running Dominance
Jake and Zane Robertson have been living in Kenya since 2007, just after they graduated high school in New Zealand. The two ex-pats are talented runners and getting better, which has only fed the flame of their East African bro-ness. ...