Kipyegon Bett, the 26-year-old Kenyan athlete breathed his last on Sunday mid-day after battling a long illness at the Tenwek Hospital in Bomet County.
He underwent a rough patch in his career despite rising off from a promising start.
The athlete, who made achievements just two years after kicking off his career, had his dreams shattered after what he revealed was a scheme that saw his management throw him to the wolves by failing to act in his doping case six years ago.
Kipyegon Bett bagged an 800m bronze medal in a London race in 2017.
He also achieved another medal at the world junior U20 World Athletics Championship and his career was rising to new heights only for him to stumble upon a doping ban.
He became the subject of global sporting debate in 2017 at the World Athletics Championships in London after winning a bronze medal in the 800 m race before the World Athletics preferred two charges against him when he was just 20 years old.
The first charge was for breaking the anti-doping rules. The athlete, however, implicated his management company accusing it of getting involved in a scheme to throw him under the bus.
He added that he missed a sporting event and that his management was aware that he was participating in another event but did not update the organisers of his prior engagement.
‘’There was another case about missing a disc of which my management did not update my whereabouts as I was in Eugene and Stockholm, so I am seeing that something is going on that I don’t know,’’ he stated in an interview with CGTN 6 years ago.
May His Soul Rest In Peace!
