{"id":356707,"date":"2023-12-31T20:23:06","date_gmt":"2023-12-31T21:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=356707"},"modified":"2023-12-31T23:01:47","modified_gmt":"2023-12-31T23:01:47","slug":"this-was-murder-three-time-olympian-found-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=356707","title":{"rendered":"&#039;This was murder&#039;: Three-time Olympian found dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Kenya are investigating the slaying of three-time Ugandan <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/olympics\" title=\"Olympian\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Olympian<\/a> Benjamin Kiplagat, whose body was found with stab wounds inside his brother&#x27;s car on Sunday, a local official said.<\/p>\n<p>Kiplagat had been driving the car before his body was discovered in the vehicle on the outskirts of Eldoret, a town located 312 kilometres west of Kenya\u2019s capital, Nairobi, according to Stephen Okal, police commander from the nearby Moiben area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was murder, but we do not know the motive for now,\u201d Okal said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/cricket\/news-2023-melbourne-stars-third-win-in-historic-run-chase-marcus-stonis-glenn-maxwell-adelaide-strikers\/4af9d55e-879c-4001-95e4-d9dc14034da6\" title=\"Stoinis leads Stars in historic run chase\ufeff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Stoinis leads Stars in historic run chase\ufeff<\/strong><\/a><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE: \ufeff<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/cricket\/news-2023-india-v-australia-women-results-tourists-clinch-odi-series-as-hosts-drop-seven-catches\/daa542eb-161b-422b-8970-22253b7f3d72\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Seven dropped catches hand Aussies series win<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/football\/news-2023-australia-socceroos-harry-kewell-coaching-celtic-yokohama-marinos\/b81bdecb-78cd-4f9e-a9a0-4b35ad21eb92\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Socceroos legend set to follow in Ange&#x27;s footsteps<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"1e9386de-780d-48ba-beff-10651b43f504\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/1e9386de-780d-48ba-beff-10651b43f504\" alt=\"Benjamin Kiplagat in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2016.\" data-width=\"4538\" data-height=\"2553\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As a long-distance runner, Kiplagat specialised in the 3000-metre steeplechase.<\/p>\n<p>He represented Uganda in six World Athletics Championships and at the 2008, 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>He reached the semi-finals of the 2012 London Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>Athletics Kenya official Barnabas Korir mourned the athlete&#x27;s death.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe urge the police to speed up investigations and &#8230; book his killers,\u201d Korir said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Police in Kenya are investigating the slaying of three-time Ugandan Olympian Benjamin Kiplagat, whose body was found with stab wounds inside his brother&#x27;s car on <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=356707\" title=\"&#039;This was murder&#039;: Three-time Olympian found dead\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":356709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356707"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=356707"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356710,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356707\/revisions\/356710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/356709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=356707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=356707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=356707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}