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STORY: :: Fellow athletes mourn the loss of UgandanOlympic marathon runner Rebecca Cheptegei:: Nairobi, Kenya:: September 5, 2024:: Milcah Chemos-Cheywa, Runner & friend of Rebecca Cheptegei‘’I can say we are still in shock, and we are in pain, especially as athletes, and this thing happening in Kenya, this is the second time an athlete is being attacked, we remember the case of Agnes Tirop, now it has come to Rebecca, so we are not happy.’’:: Iten, Kenya:: Joan Chelimo, Runner & founder of an anti-domestic violence non-profit"I felt pain, because I know her, I was with her in Olympics, I was just with her in Paris. And she was so excited, she was so hardworking. She was a mom. I feel like, what can we just, I don't know. I just have mixed feelings.""We are athletes, we are more vulnerable, because we are being used. We have these men who come around and just use us as properties. They want, they see a young girl, manipulate them.""Now, I hope there will be something to be done, because I don't know how many more lives that we need to lose so that they wake up."Cheptegei died on Thursday, four days after she was doused in petrol and set on fire by her boyfriend in Kenya, in the latest attack on a female athlete in the country.Cheptegei, 33, who competed in the Paris Olympics, suffered burns to more than 75% of her body in Sunday's attack, Kenyan and Ugandan media reported.She is the third prominent sportswoman to be killed in Kenya since October 2021.