Kiprop okay after Sunday accident: Coach

BY EMMANUEL SABUNI
ATHLETICS: Double world 1,500m champion Asbel Kiprop, who was involved in a road accident on Sunday evening, is in stable condition. The world champions escaped death when his car veered off the Kabarnet-Eldoret highway on his way to Eldoret in the company of James Kangogo, the Rehlingen 3,000m race winner in Germany.

He sustain minor injuries but was treated and discharged at Kabarnet District Hospital. David Letting, Kiprop’s coach, confirmed the metric mile superstar was in good health although his BMW X6 model was wrecked. “We are grateful it did not injure them.

I wish them a quick recovery from the psychological trauma,” said Letting. “We had gone to Kabarnet for a picnic over the weekend and we were returning home when the incident happened. The road has many corners and since Kiprop (Asbel) was not familiar with the road, he hit a stone and the car losing control and was destroyed but luckily we had tightened our safety belts,” said Kangogo.