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Athletes deserve support to cope with challenges

World Athletics Championships - Doha 2019 - Women's 10,000 Metres Final - Khalifa International Stadium, Doha, Qatar - September 28, 2019 Kenya's Agnes Jebet Tirop reacts after finishing third in the final [Reuters, Ibraheem Al Omari]

This has been a disturbing period for Kenya’s sporting fraternity. We have lost three top athletes to unfortunate incidents related to mental anguish within a week.

On Tuesday, we woke up to horrifying news that women-only world 10km record holder Agnes Jebet Tirop had been brutally murdered in their home in Iten. Tirop had a rich athletics resume, two-time world 10,000m bronze medalist, world cross country champion and Africa cross country champion.

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