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The two-time Olympic marathon champion Eliud Kipchoge, has told the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú he feared for the lives of his family during a campaign of online abuse that wrongly linked him to the death of his fellow Kenyan and marathon world record holder, Kelvin Kiptum.

Kipchoge tells Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Sport Africa's Celestine Karoney that those closest to him suffered because of threatening social media posts following Kiptum's death in a car crash in February 2024.

Some social media users began to speculate that Kipchoge was part of a conspiracy to kill Kiptum.

Image: Eliud Kipchoge finishes the 127th Boston Marathon in sixth place overall. (Photo by John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)