http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20160303-00000083-spnannex-spo an editorial by Ryosuke Sugimoto translated by Brett Larner It's official, Kayoko Fukushi has backed out of her plans to run the Nagoya Women's Marathon. As a result there's not much doubt that the Rio de Janeiro Olympic women's marathon team will be made up of Mai Ito for placing 7th in the Beijing World Championships, Fukushi for breaking the JAAF's 2:22:30 Olympic qualifying standard when she won the Osaka International Women's Marathon in 2:22:17, and the top Japanese finisher in Nagoya. The storm has pretty much passed for women's selection, but what about the men? Among the entries for the final men's selection race, this weekend's Lake Biwa Mainichi Marathon, is civil servant runner Yuki Kawauchi . No men qualified for Rio in Beijing, so essentially the top three Japanese finishers in the three domestic selection races will be chosen. At December's Fukuoka Intern...
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