Tucsonan Bernard Lagat finishes his career clean

Nothing on the 2016 sports calendar moved me from the sofa more quickly, with blood racing and goosebumps rising, than Tucsonan Bernard Lagat winning the 5,000-meter championship at the USA Olympic Trials. Remember, he was 41. Last week, USA Track and Field was told that the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency tested 481 Olympic-hopeful athletes during the year. It tested Lagat 13 times, and obviously he was clean all 13 times. Doesn’t that sound a bit excessive? Only four other track and field athletes were tested more than Lagat, who has retired from his track days with reputation intact and his place in history secure.