Eliud Kipchoge recieves death threats after alleged involvement in conspiracy to murder Kelvin Kiptum.

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Eliud Kipchoge's family threatened after death of Kelvin Kiptum

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Eliud Kipchoge says his family received threats on social media after the death of fellow marathon runner Kelvin Kiptum.

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It was really awful to read what some were saying, I feel terrible for Kipchoge to have to go through that. By 90% of friends I think he maybe meant more so fans and supporters who turned against him

He didn't sleep well in Tokyo and that could explain his performance their. I hope he can mentally get over this and everyone can be kinder

Because it's always about him. This is a load of exaggerated crap designed to place focus on him and sympathy toward him. Somehow it is succeeding.

Maybe he didn't really know him like that and it's not in his nature to lie and pretend like they were best friends who talked all the time?

Reminiscent of Sifan Hassan calling Gudaf Tsegay "that girl" at Worlds after the 10,000 where she fell. Maybe if you're a great, everyone coming up behind you is that girl, that boy on the horizon.

Any ways you can do it!

Since it was a car accident there wasn't any murder of anyone.

It's utterly ridiculous that people can't believe someone was distracted or made some other sort of mistake behind the wheel resulting in a fatal accident, it's not at all an uncommon occurrence but someone famous does it and no it just has to be a conspiracy...

It's really mind boggling how many people just can't accept that life is a complex mess often with no rhyme or reason and invent delusional grand narratives

Why did he wait until now to say this? Tokyo Marathon was 2 months ago. I wonder if it’s because people have been questioning why someone who only finished 10th in his last race got selected to go to the Olympics over other runners who did better.

Publicly congratulate? Don’t be weird. I’m sure a personal visit means more than your handler making an instagram post.

It’s utterly ridiculous that people like you dismiss the possibility that there could have been foul play in Kiptum’s death. I don’t think Kipchoge was involved. But it could have been a fan of his. Or more likely the Kenyan mafia wanting money. Kiptum’s father said strange dudes came looking for him, so that should be more than enough reason to suspect foul play.

How do you know the thing that distracted him wasn’t a mysterious vehicle following him?

Nice guys finish tenth in Tokyo.

The usual idiot saying idiotic things.

It's not just about being great, it's an age thing. No Kenyan would have been surprised or offended by Kipchoge calling him that because it is a very common African thing.

Also, ear infection.

Well this hurt to hear..imagine being such a loser you send literal death threats to a runner because of a stupid conspiracy....people are crazy

Big claims need big evidence. It's fun to fantasize about conspiracies but that's not the way the world works. I could just as well claim the moon fell out of the sky and pushed his car off the road. There was that solar eclipse right after he died. Coincidence?

Quite the leap to go from "he would name him in an Instagram post" to "he murdered him"

he isn't saying he murdered him, he is just saying he disrespected him. There's a difference.