Shadrack Kipchirchir

Eleven U.S. Army soldiers are headed to the Summer Olympics in Brazil next month on a mission that doesn't have anything to do with security. They're all U.S. Olympians, including some who only recently became American citizens. The…

Two Kenyan-born athletes and who are active-duty soldiers will represent the United States at the Olympics Games in Rio de Janeiro. Shadrack Kipchirchir and Leonard Korir, – both 10,000m runners – made the USA Olympic team while…

Shadrack Kipchirchir isn't the first Kenyan runner to take this path to U.S. citizenship. Shadrack Kipchirchir, who closed out his Oklahoma State running career Wednesday night with a second place behind Oregon’s Edward Cheserek in the…