Land dispute, petrol attack and 80 per cent body burn: How Ugandan athlete with roots in Kenya met painful death
Rebecca Cheptegei’s parents said their daughter bought land in Trans Nzoia to be near the county’s many athletic training centres. A report filed by the local chief said the two were heard fighting over the land where her house was built before the attack.
Ugandan marathoner dies while undergoing treatment at Kenyan hospital after petrol attack by boyfriend
Rebecca Cheptegei, who finished 44th in Paris, was admitted to a hospital in the Kenyan Rift Valley city of Eldoret after the attack. She “passed on today morning at 5.30 am after her organs failed,” Owen Menach, senior director of clinical services at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, said, adding that a full report regarding the circumstances of her death would be released on Thursday afternoon.
Football: Kenyan-born former South Sudanese refugee Mabil is ‘stronger’ mentally to play again for Australia
Although popular in the dressing room and boasting nine goals from his 33 Socceroos appearances, Awer Mabil battled through a confidence-sapping stint at Spanish club Cadiz in 2022-23 where he barely played before being loaned off to Sparta Prague.
Ugandan marathon runner Cheptegui burnt after being doused with petrol by boyfriend
The 33-year-old Rebecca Cheptegui, who finished 44th in Paris, has a house in Kenya where she stays when she trains in the country.
Double tragedy for Grammy-winning singer Mariah Carey as she loses mother and sister
Mariah Carey mother, Patricia, was previously married to Alfred Roy Carey, the singer’s father. The parents divorced when the Vision of Love singer was 3. Carey grew up in Suffolk County on Long Island and lived primarily with her mother after her parents’ divorce. Her father died of cancer in 2002 at age 72.
Kenya’s Olympic 800m athletics champion Wanyonyi misses world record by whisker in Lausanne, Switzerland
The young Kenyan ferociously chased the green lights in the inner lane that keep pace with the world record in ideal 25 C conditions, just missing Rudisha’s record but matching Wilson Kipketer’s 1997 time as second fastest ever run.
Arsenal poised to be declared EPL champions as Man City braces hefty fines and life in lower league
If Man City are found guilty, it adds, potential punishments include a huge fine, points deduction, transfer ban and expulsion from the Premier League. This case has dragged on longer than most would have anticipated, but it is a complicated situation and a further spanner was thrown into the works earlier this year. This came as they launched an unprecedented legal battle against the Premier League as they are pushing for the removal of Associated Party Transaction (APT) rules.
Man City at crossroads: ‘No chance Premier League will pardon champions for financial fair play breaches’
City’s rivals, whether rationally or otherwise, fear that legal success for City would only be the start of attempts to destabilise the competitive balance of the English game. “They worry that it will lead to City and Newcastle (owned by the Saudi Public Investment Fund) dumping a billion every summer; that’s the fear, that it blows the house down on financial sustainability across the whole of Europe,” says one European football executive.
EPL champions Man City start defence of title facing risk of demotion over financial fiddling
Manchester City have been down this road before. They were banned from European competitions for two years by UEFA for alleged breaches of financial regulations in February 2020. Yet the sanction was overturned by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in July of the same year when the court ruled “most of the alleged breaches were either not established or time-barred (outside of the organisation’s five-year statute of limitations)”. City were fined €10 million (£8.6 million or $11 million) for not cooperating with the investigation.
2024 Olympic Games: It’s au revoir Paris as Tom Cruise turns spotlight on 2028 Los Angeles games
The national stadium, France’s largest, was one of the targets of Islamic State gunmen and suicide bombers who killed 130 people in and around Paris on November 13, 2015. The joy and celebrations that swept Paris during the Games as Marchand and other French athletes racked up 64 medals – 16 of them gold – marked a major watershed in the city’s recovery from that night of terror.
