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Kenyan runner Agnes Tirop poses after winning the women’s 1 500m race during a Diamond League meeting at the Olympic Stadium in Stockholm, Sweden. (Photograph by Marco Mantovani/ Getty Images)
AGNES JEBET TIROP

Agnes Tirop’s blossoming cut short by brutal murder

Like so many victims of domestic and gender-based violence, the star Kenyan road runner was killed in her home, robbing her of what seemed like a rosy future in world athletics

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