Ugandan athlete Rebecca Cheptegei died on Wednesday from injuries she had sustained on Sunday, when her former boyfriend poured petrol on her and set her alight. She became the third woman athlete to die at the hands of a man in western Kenya in the past three years. 
Man kills Olympian. Again.
Rebecca Cheptegei paid the ultimate price for outpacing the man in her life. She’s far from the only woman athlete to have done so.
