Colleen Conahan, the famous Boston Marathon is on Monday.

You will be there running it, but there is someone else who won't.

Please do tell us about that.

So the running community lost an ascending star earlier this year.

On February 10th, Kelvin Kiptum, a Kenyan, one of the most promising marathon runners, died in a car accident in his home country.

He was driving with his coach, Gervais Hakezimana, who also died in the crash.

Singing hymns and holding hands. Mourners walked alongside a convoy,

carrying Calvin Kiptum's flower line casket

as it's headed to his home village.

The procession for the marathon world record holder

departed a morgue in the Western Kenyan city of Eldorered on Thursday.

He was 24 years old, he was married, he had a seven-year-old son,

a four-year-old daughter,

and this is obviously just such a tragedy for him, his family, his community in Kenya.

But as the current world record holder in the marathon, he set the mark in 2023 in the Chicago marathon.

He's waving to the crowd, kisses. in the Congo Marathon. And Carrie Pekowski could not be...

Kipton was training for the Rotterdam Marathon in this month and all eyes are on him

because he had set his sights on breaking the two hour barrier for running a marathon. No human has been

able to run it in less than two hours and at only 24 years old he was already regarded as one of the best marathon runners the world had ever seen.

So just a massive loss that had the running community asking itself what could have been. When the starters gun goes off on Monday for the 128th Boston Marathon,

sadly, Kelvin Kiptum will not be among the runners.

The Kenyan running superstar lost his life earlier this year,

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