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The Curse of Kenya’s Long-Distance Runners

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Marathoner Kelvin Kiptum was just arriving to the sport’s highest echelon when he died in a car crash in February 2024. As it turns out, his story is just one in a series that has befallen competitive runners from Kenya. For 1843, Jonathan W. Rosen reports from the training meccas of the Rift Valley region, painting a heartbreaking picture of an uphill course that all too often ends in tragedy.Somehow, though, the money was never enough. With a …
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Longreads broke the news in on Wednesday, June 4, 2025.
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