Description
Added on the 08/03/2013 12:43:58 - Copyright : Trace Sports
Ugandan Olympian Rebecca Cheptegei has died in Kenya, four days after being set on fire by her boyfriend in an attack in her home. "She had severe percentage of burns, which unfortunately led to multi-organ failure," says Kimani Mbugua, head of the intensive care unit at the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital. SOUNDBITE
Exterior of hospital where Ugandan Olympian Rebecca Cheptegei has died in Eldoret, Kenya, four days after being set on fire by her boyfriend in an attack in her home. IMAGES
Beatriz Flamini, a Spanish elite athlete, finally finds open air after spending 500 days isolated in a cave, with no direct contact with the outside world or natural light. Flamini has been 70 metres below ground in the cave in Los Gauchos, near Motril, since November 2021, left with books, artificial light and cameras to record her experience but no phone or timekeeping instruments, and food provided by a team who left it in a spot in the cave where they would have no contact. IMAGES
Yellow police tape cordons off the gated home of record-breaking runner Agnes Tirop, who was stabbed to death inside her home in Iten in western Kenya, an incident that has shocked her home country and the world of athletics. IMAGES