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World 200m bronze medallist Alex Quinonez has been killed in his home country of Ecuador.The 32-year-old finished third at the World Championships in Doha two years ago to become the first Ecuadorian athlete to win a global medal in a track event. The Ecuadorian sports ministry announced the news in a statement on its Twitter feed, saying: “Today we lost ...

By: Aleks Klosok, CNNKenyan long-distance runner Agnes Tirop, who represented her country at the recent Tokyo Olympics, has died aged 25, Athletics Kenya (AK) announced in a statement on Wednesday.According to the country’s athletics body, Tirop was found dead at her home in Iten, after she was “allegedly stabbed.”Local reports state Tirop was found dead with stab wounds in her ...