re: Kelvin Kiptum, marathon world record holder, dead at 24

Clot shot

That’s really awful….

For me, personally, this is worse than Kobe. I know others aren’t going to relate but this sport means so much to me and Kiptum was a modern day pioneer. As others have said the pursuit for sub 2, dominating an old man’s event in the marathon as a young gun, dying in his prime, leaving behind a family, this just sucks all the way around. The running world is going to hurt for a while from this.

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I pray there were no back room politics involved in the crash and it was simply operator error.

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Pretty damn suspicious timing

He probably fell asleep at the wheel. I saw some posts on letsrun stating that his management wasnt the best and he often had to go to sponser meetings and such on sundays on the tail end of training weeks. He was scheduled to run rotterdam on april 14 which means he would likely be in the early stages of the toughest parts of his training cycle (100+ mile weeks) right now. Piecing that together I feel like it would make sense that he fell asleep on an already dangerous stretch of road.

Who knows if thats right or if we'll ever know what happened but it would make sense.

As Joel Osteen would say, "think of things that are of a good report."

For more positive sports news, this is breaking:

Final Score from last night's alternate Super Bowl, in the Republic of Vespuccia--

Rockfalls 35
Sunburst 38

Final play: Rockfalls kicker Boots Haas III WIDE RIGHT on a potential game-tying 39 meter field goal attempt.

Game played at Sunburst Stadium, Sunburst, ROV. Temp at kickoff 7°C; est. attendance ~ 56,000.