IAAF won’t ban Kenya from Rio Olympics, IOC unlikely to (Yahoo Sports)

Despite a surge of doping cases over the last four years, and an increasingly dysfunctional and now suspended drug-testing agency, Kenya’s athletes were cleared to compete at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics by the IAAF on Friday. The International Olympic Committee, which has the final call on whether Kenya’s famed distance runners will run in Rio in August, also is unlikely to stop the country sending a team. ”That’s good news, hey,” Kenya track federation president Jackson Tuwei told The Associated Press, laughing in apparent relief.