Agnes Tirop: slain star was 'jewel' in Kenya's athletics crown

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Kenya, the country's athletics body lamented, had lost a ’jewel’. Agnes Tirop who was one of the fastest rising athletics giants on the international stage.

"Agnes was our only hope. We, as athletes in the family, we don't know what we are going to do," said her cousin Joash Limo, himself a 5,000m athlete, who called for the government to ensure justice was served.

Tirop's grief-stricken mother Dinah spoke about her daughter's generosity to the family -- paying for school fees and clothes for children. In Iten, the high-altitude training centre in the Rift Valley in western Kenya, fellow athletes said they were heartbroken.

 

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