Kenyan MPs honour Kiptum amid calls to better protect athletes

Kiptum, who smashed the world marathon record in October, was killed along with his Rwandan coach in the accident near his home in the Eldoret area in Kenya's Rift Valley on Sunday.

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A general view of the front covers of two Kenyan newspapers, The Standard and Daily Nation, with tributes of world marathon record-holder Kelvin Kiptum, in Nairobi on February 13,2024.

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Kenyan lawmakers held a minute of silence on Tuesday in honour of running star Kelvin Kiptum after his death in a late-night car crash and appealed for better

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