KEVIN MCCALLUM: Three female athletes, three male killers
06 September 2024 - 05:00
At the Paris Olympics it took Uganda’s Rebecca Cheptegei 2hr 32min 14sec to finish 44th, just less than 10 minutes behind the winner.
It took four days for Cheptegei to die at the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret City after her former boyfriend poured petrol on her and set her alight at her house in Endebess, close to the Uganda-Kenyan border, on Sunday. Cheptegei had 75% burns to her body. From what an emergency doctor told me when my brother suffered 70% burns, that would correlate to having a 25% chance of living. ..
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