{"id":1193646,"date":"2022-08-29T11:57:21","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T11:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/29\/tributes-as-top-cyclist-dies-in-a-crash\/"},"modified":"2022-08-29T11:57:21","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T11:57:21","slug":"tributes-as-top-cyclist-dies-in-a-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/29\/tributes-as-top-cyclist-dies-in-a-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Tributes as top cyclist dies in a crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"391\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Top-Kenyan-Cyclist-dies-in-a-crash-696x391.png\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Top Kenyan Cyclist dies in a crash \/ Credit: Rachel Ruto\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Top Kenyan Cyclist dies in a crash \/ Credit: Rachel Ruto<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Tributes have poured in for the Kenyan cyclist Sule Kangangi who died while competing in a race in the US.<\/p>\n<p>He had been participating in the Vermont Overland race on Saturday where he reportedly suffered a fatal crash, according to a statement by his team.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old was competing alongside his fellow Kenyan cyclists John Kariuki, Nancy Akinyi and Uganda\u2019s Jordan Schleck.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHeart-breaking. My thoughts are with Sule\u2019s friends and family,\u201d Kenyan-born British cyclist Chris Froome posted on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>Rachel Ruto, the wife of Kenya\u2019s president-elect William Ruto, described Kangangi\u2019s death as a loss of \u201ca friend and a mentor\u201d to East Africa\u2019s cycling community.<\/p>\n<p>Kangangi won the men\u2019s edition of the first gravel race held in East Africa at the iconic Maasai Mara game reserve in Kenya.<\/p>\n<p>He also represented Kenya at the Tour du Rwanda contest, Commonwealth Games and All Africa games.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"MMfg4gYl7GU\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Gov&#039;t receives 750 million dollars loan, what next?\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MMfg4gYl7GU?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top Kenyan Cyclist dies in a crash \/ Credit: Rachel Ruto Tributes have poured in for the Kenyan cyclist Sule Kangangi who died while competing in a race in the US. He had been participating in the Vermont Overland race on Saturday where he reportedly suffered a fatal crash, according to a statement by his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1193650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[2922,6322,862,121,4663],"class_list":["post-1193646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-crash","tag-cyclist","tag-dies","tag-top","tag-tributes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1193646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1193646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1193646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1193646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}