Kenya's Kipyegon Bett, a former junior world champion over 800m, has died aged 26 following a short illness, with his sister blaming alcohol abuse and depression.
Kipyegon Bett won a bronze medal at the London 2017 World Championships but was handed a doping ban the following year
"He had been sick, complaining of stomach pains for about a month. The doctors said he had a liver problem and had been in and out of hospital," his sister Purity Kirui told BBC Sport Africa. Kirui, a 3,000m steeplechase runner who won Commonwealth gold in 2014, said being absent from the track had an adverse effect on Bett, who was 20 at the time of his ban.
"Before his death we had a plan to try one more time to take him to a rehabilitation centre in Kisumu."
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