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The life of one of the brightest young stars in all of Olympic sports was cut horribly short on Sunday when marathon world-record holder Kelvin Kiptum died in a car crash in his native Kenya.
Police said Kiptum, 24, lost control of the car he was driving at around 11 p.m. local time and veered off the road into a ditch before striking a tree. Kiptum’s coach, Gervais Hakizimana, was also killed in the wreck, which occurred in the
