We’ve reached the second Sunday of the Olympics. The track and field events have started at the Olympic Stadium. Therefore, it’s only fitting that we continue our women of the Olympics series with British heptathlete and Olympic women’s heptathlon gold medalist Jessica Ennis.

WADA and the IOC say that Chinese swimmer Ye Shiwen isn’t on drugs. After seeing this article of a Chinese athlete training factory, I can kind of see how that might happen. People will object to cheap labour making their $100 designer t-shirts but not this? (The Daily Mail)

Everyone thinks Penn State’s football program was hit with rather harsh, nearly permanently crippling, penalties for the Sandusky scandal but it could have been worse. Penn State had to either accept the sanctions handed down or risk the death penalty. (Outside the Lines)

GQ put together a very well-written feature about the Anders Breivik massacre in Norway. (GQ)

After the jump, Olympic media coverage issues, Mitt Romney’s Twitter nemesis, and a two-minute summary of life in America.

London mayor Boris Johnson is the breakout star of the Olympics. It’s thanks in part to being the funniest man in the games, whether intentionally or unintentionally like getting stuck on a zipline. (ITV)

It’s bad enough NBC tape delays anything worth watching at these Olympics but the epic stories they’re attempting to weave are only about Americans. Their coverage is a far cry from what the BBC is putting up. (Salon)

NBC isn’t the only broadcaster who does the jingoistic approach. TSN is really pushing that Missy Franklin’s parents are Canadian very hard. (mc79hockey)

Keeping with the slightly Olympic theme of the links, here’s a slightly scientific list of the 50 best athletes in the world right now. (Esquire) That the likes of Fernando Alonso, Sebastian Vettel and even Jimmie Johnson aren’t on the list shows that it’s clearly incomplete.

A hacker had fun with the social media sites of various MLB team last week. That Jeter sex change wouldn’t shock me because of how many women he’s slept with. (Deadspin)

Mitt Romney’s biggest nemesis on Twitter isn’t a Democrat or a reporter or another traditional purveyor of truth. It’s comedian Rob Delaney. (Bloomberg)

A news network in India is suing Nielsen for manipulating ratings data over the last eight years. If it’s manipulating ratings in India, imagine what’s happening in the US. NBC might not be the 4th place network. They could really be #5 behind Univision. (Warming Glow)

Good news! Well, good news for me because I’m now going to pick up this game. Star Wars: The Old Republic is going free-to-play this fall. (Forbes Games) I think I’ll take them up on that $15 sale in August.

Big news! The Durango/XBox 720 developer kit has been found in use in the wild. We’re in good shape for a 2013 launch of the PS4/XBox 720, I think. (EuroGamer)

What if some popular video games were made into halfway decent movies? The posters might look a big like this. (DailyDip)

Coolest university residence ever? Coolest university residence ever. I wish I lived in this place when I was at Western. (Twisted Sifter)

I think this sums up the problems with NBC’s coverage pretty well.

When the world thinks of America, it seems as though they associate the country with slack-jawed yokels.

Speaking of America, only in America can we get an epic minor league baseball manager blow up like this.