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In Kenya with javelin thrower Julius Yego when he was 24 and training himself through Youtube videos.

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Julius Yego at age 24

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Faith Kipyegon reacts after winning the 1500m at the Kenya Athletics Trials at the Nyayo National Stadium.

2024 Kenya Athletics Olympic Trials: Faith Kipyegon does double

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Kenya Track and Field Paris Olympic Trials: Preview, schedule, how to watch live action

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Olympic steeplechase champion Conseslus Kipruto, double Olympic gold medallist Caster Semenya, Ferdinand Omanyala, the world leader over 100m, two-time Olympian Akani Simbine, Olympic silver medallist

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2022 African Athletics Championships: Top things to know about the event in Mauritius and how to watch

Agnes Tirop, a distance runner who represented Kenya at the Tokyo Olympics has died at the age of 25.
The two-time World bronze medallist was allegedly stabbed to death at her home in Iten.
In September 2021, Tirop shattered a long-standing women-only 10km world record at the Adizero Road To

DOHA, QATAR - SEPTEMBER 28:  Agnes Jebet Tirop of Kenya celebrates winning bronze in the Women's 10,000 Metres final during day two of 17th IAAF World Athletics Championships Doha 2019 at Khalifa International Stadium on September 28, 2019 in Doha, Qatar. (Photo by Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Images for IAAF)

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Athletics world mourns distance runner Agnes Tirop: “Kenya has lost a jewel”

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Silver medal winners Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron of France celebrate during the victory ceremony for the Figure Skating Ice Dance Free Dance on day eleven of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games at Gangneung Ice Arena on February 20, 2018 in Gangneung, South Korea. (Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images)

Olympic Daily News: 8 June 2020

Kenya's Olympic silver medallist famously learnt to throw the javelin by watching videos on YouTube. Now the 2015 world champion uses it to analyse his own efforts in what he calls "the sexiest event in the world".

2019 IAAF World Championships - Doha

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Julius Yego says the javelin is "the most difficult event" to predict

Rio silver medallist Julius Yego is back at the Commonwealth Games where it all began.

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Julius Yego showing off unknown talent

Kenya's Javelin silver Olympic medallist was involved in a high-impact collision, but suffered only minor injuries.

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Julius Yego at age 24

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