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Faith Kipyegon stormed to a historic fourth world 1500m title as the Kenyan great extended her streak of dominance with a fifth consecutive global gold in the event.
The 31-year-old matched retired men’s world record holder Hicham El Guerrouj as the only other athlete in history to amass four 1500m titles at the championships.
After securing her third consecutive Olympic triumph last year, this was also a third straight world gold for Kipyegon, who controlled the final from the start before bursting clear of her rivals on the final lap.
Not only is the world record holder unbeaten in the past five global finals but, excluding heats, she has not suffered defeat over the distance for more than four years.
Australia’s Olympic silver medallist Jessica Hull faded to bronze after attempting to follow as Kipyegon wound up the pace, with Dorcus Ewoi securing a Kenyan one-two.
The unstoppable Kipyegon crossed the line in three minutes 52.15 seconds, the chasm separating her from her competitors evidenced by the near three-second wait for Ewoi to follow.
“I just want to thank God,” Kipyegon told BBC Sport.
“I knew I was capable of defending my world title after breaking the world record [earlier this year]. I thank God that I was strong today.
‘There’s nothing anyone can do to stop her’
With outstretched arms and a relaxed smile which suggested it had never felt in doubt, Kipyegon celebrated the eighth global gold of her career.
That is level with Jamaican sprint star Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce – the only other woman to win as many as four world titles in the same event – and distance running great Tirunesh Dibaba for the most by a female athlete in individual events.
Kipyegon will now target a second successive world double in the 5,000m, the heats for which begin on Thursday before Saturday’s final.
She became the first woman to achieve that world 1500m-5,000m double two years ago.
The competition in the women’s 1500m is fierce, and was a factor in Great Britain’s Olympic 1500m bronze medallist Georgia Hunter Bell’s decision to prioritise the 800m in Japan.
Kipyegon has swept seven of the past eight global titles, with Sifan Hassan the last athlete to deny her at the 2019 World Championships in Doha.
Keen to continue pushing the boundaries – and, as a mother, inspire young girls and women in particular – she made an ambitious bid to become the first woman in history to run a sub-four-minute mile in June.
Although she came up short, she still ran 1.22 seconds faster than her personal best of 4:07.64 – the time which remains the official mile world record, and still five seconds faster than any other woman has run in history.
The oldest woman to ever win a world 1500m title, she continues to go from strength to strength.
Kipyegon began the year by just missing the world 1000m record in April, improved her 1500m world record to 3:48.68 in July, and was within a second of breaking the 3,000m record – which has stood for 32 years – in her final race before Tokyo.
One night after Armand Duplantis soared to a 14th world record and third world title at Japan’s National Stadium, this too appears a reign of dominance unlikely to end any time soon.
Commentating on BBC TV, Andrew Cotter said: “I like the way she goes about this type of race. She can do a 58 last lap, the others can’t.
“She makes the third lap quicker than the second, the second quicker than the first.
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Robert Redford’s love life and clashes with Barbra Streisand as legend dies at 89
Robert Redford’s death at the age of 89 has sent shockwaves around the world, with the star said to have died ‘surrounded by his loved ones’
Actor and director Robert Redford’s death has shocked the world. The Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid star died aged 89 ‘surrounded by his loved ones’ and leaves behind a huge legacy.
Redford was at his home in Utah at the time and, so far, no cause of death has been shared. As well as acting in the classic film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Redford starred in the likes of The Sting, All the President’s Men, and Out of Africa.
He was also a director, producer and environmentalist. His acting career ended in 2018, when he announced his retirement.
Throughout the years, Redford was romantically linked to a number of women – and also had a highly publicised clash with Barbra Streisand.
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Redford had married twice in his career. Firstly, in 1958, the actor tied the knot with Lola Van Wagenen. The American film and TV producer was best known for The American Experience. The duo exchanged vows at her grandmother’s home.
They went on to have four children together, two boys and two girls. Sadly, their first son, Scott Anthony, died in 1959 at the age of just two and a half months. He suffered sudden infant death syndrome.
As well as his four kids, Redford also had seven grandchildren.
After divorcing in 1985, Redford was linked over the years to Sonia Braga, Lena Olin and Kathy O’Rear. In 2009, he married again, saying ‘I Do’ to longtime partner Sibylle Szaggars.
Their wedding took place in Hamburg. Despite Redford’s huge movie career, Szaggars admitted she never watched any of his films. In 2014, she made the confession, saying she watched 15 minutes of each of his films before they had dinner together.
It’s this that reportedly drew Redford to his second wife. He previously told People: “It was a wonderful beginning of a relationship, because it began as two human beings meeting each other and finding a connection as two human beings, rather than being coloured by success.”
The couple didn’t have any children together.
Elsewhere, while Streisand and Redford never dated, their fallout came as Redford is said to have been reluctant to work with her.
The duo starred alongside each other in 1973’s romantic drama The Way We Were. Director Sydney Pollack claimed Redford held reservations over Streisand’s apparent “controlling” reputation.
“Barbra had never worked with a really strong leading man,” Pollack previously said. “She has a tendency to take over a picture, just by the size of her talent and larger-than-life presence. It’s hard for a costar to stay in the same ring with her.”
Despite the initial tension, the movie went to be a huge success and the pair stayed friend for decades after.
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Are Man Utd showing any signs of progress under Amorim?
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Manchester United’s slow start to the season has increased the pressure on head coach Ruben Amorim, who has won only 25.8% of his Premier League games in charge.
The Reds have just two victories from their past 13 top-flight matches and produced another lacklustre display in Sunday’s 3-0 loss to neighbours Manchester City.
Despite the growing external unease around Amorim, not helped by the derby defeat, senior officials remain fully supportive of the Portuguese.
Some of their underlying stats do actually reveal a modest improvement in the past six months but this has often been undermined by issues in both boxes. Since the start of March, United have scored nine fewer goals than would be anticipated based on the quality of chances they create (their expected goals figure, excluding penalties) and conceded 3.4 more, figures indicative of wasteful finishing and uncertain goalkeeping.
Since 1 March, United have recorded a fairly respectable non-penalty expected goal difference, with only seven sides faring better.
The problem for Amorim is that it isn’t translating to on-field results. His side have accumulated just 13 points in this period which, along with West Ham, is the joint-lowest total of any ever-present Premier League club.
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Robert Redford’s tragic family health ‘curse’ from baby loss to gruelling illness
As the acting world mourns the loss of Robert Redford, the Mirror takes a look at some of the devastating tragedies the screen icon endured away from the cameras, including the loss of two of his children
As one of the leading lights of Hollywood, Robert Redford led a glittering life in many ways. But his charming red carpet-ready smiles hid a private pain.
Redford, famed for his roles in classics such as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), The Way We Were (1973), and All the President’s Men (1976), has died in his sleep at the age of 89, leaving behind the sort of legacy many actors wouldn’t even dare to dream of.
As well as honing his craft as an acclaimed thespian, Redford made a name for himself as a gifted director, with his 1980 debut Ordinary People scooping no fewer than four Academy Awards. The following year, Redford founded the Sundance Institute, which is a nonprofit dedicated to nurturing new and exciting voices in cinema.
Sadly, for all his many achievements, Redford knew a lot of sadness in his life, including the deaths of two of his sons and the horrific murder of his daughter’s boyfriend.
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Tragic loss of first baby
On September 1, 1959, Redford and his then-wife, Lola Van Wagenen, welcomed their first child together, a little boy they named Scott Anthony Redford.
Tragically, on November 19, 1959, baby Scott died unexpectedly from SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome). He was only two-and-a-half-months-old, and the devastating loss had a profound effect on the young couple.
In November 2017, Redford opened up about Scott’s death in an interview with Esquire, sharing: “I was only 21; my wife was 20. We were just starting our lives; I was just starting my career in New York.
“Of course, it was traumatic, and how that plays out over time, I don’t know. We had to deal with it. You have to move on. And we had other children who came. But something like that doesn’t get completely dismissed. It probably shows up in various small ways you’re not even aware of.”
Death of lookalike son
On May 5, 1962, Redford and Wagenen went on to welcome their second son, David James ‘Jamie’ Redford. With his thick mop of fair hair, Jamie was his father’s double and also inherited his passion for filmmaking, going on to build a successful career as a documentary filmmaker.
Sadly, Jamie also had to contend with significant health problems throughout his life. He suffered from primary sclerosing cholangitis, a condition that affects a person’s liver and bile ducts, and had to undergo two liver transplants.
Using his talents for filmmaking to spread awareness of the importance of organ donation, father-of-two Jamie went on to make the 1999 documentary The Kindness of Strangers, which focused on the human stories behind organ donation.
On October 16, 2020, James’ wife, Kyle Redford, revealed that Jamie had passed away at their Marin County home from bile-duct cancer in his liver. He was only 58-years0old.
Taking to the social media platform X, then known as Twitter, Kyle wrote: “Jamie died today. We’re heartbroken. He lived a beautiful, impactful life & was loved by many,” she wrote. “He will be deeply missed. As his wife of 32 yrs, I’m most grateful for the two spectacular children we raised together. I don’t know what we would’ve done w/o them over the past 2yrs.”
The Salt Lake Tribune reported at the time that Jamie’s cancer was discovered in 2019, while he was awaiting another liver transplant.
Devastating murder
Redford’s daughter, Shauna, born November 15, 1960, grew up to be a talented artist, and it was while studying art at the University of Colorado Boulder that she first locked eyes with Sid Wells.
As reported by NBC News, journalism student Sid fell for Shauna during his freshman year, when they shared a dorm together. He didn’t realise at first that the pretty young woman who’d captured his interest so completely was in fact the daughter of one of the greatest movie stars of all time.
Sid invited Shauna to the Navy ROTC ball, and sparks flew. The pair would go on to date for three happy years, with an unthinkable tragedy cutting their time together short. On August 1, 1983, Sid’s older brother Sam found his body, with a single 20-gauge shotgun wound inflicted to the back of the head.
Shauna, named as ‘survivor, girlfriend and best friend’ in Sid’s obituary, was so devastated by her boyfriend’s death that she left the university altogether. Supportive father Redford made sure to be there for his daughter at this agonising time, even stopping production of his film The Natural so that the family could attend the funeral.
Suspicions circulated around flatmate Thayne Smika, and after testing the crime scene, officers interviewed the student at his mother’s home, as per CNN. It was here they found a 20-gauge shotgun, the same weapon used to kill Sid.
Smika was arrested for first-degree murder on October 6, 1983; however, prosecutors ultimately decided against charging him, stating that there wasn’t enough evidence.
The following year, in 1984, Shauna was in a car accident close to Salt Lake City, but thankfully escaped with minor injuries.
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Israel launches series of strikes on Yemen’s Red Sea port Hodeidah
Israel has confirmed it launched an attack against Yemen’s port of Hodeidah in its latest round of strikes against the country, which it says is targeting the Houthis.
Dozens of Yemeni civilians have been killed in these ongoing Israeli strikes.
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The Houthi-affiliated Al Masirah TV station said Israel carried out 12 strikes on Tuesday, with the Israeli army claiming they were a response to the Houthis’ military activities there.
“Our air defences are currently confronting the Israeli aircrafts that are launching an aggression against our country,” Houthi spokesperson Yayha Saree posted on X.
Hours before the attack against the Red Sea coast city, the Israeli military, which alleged the Houthis were using the port to receive weapons from Iran, had issued a threat to evacuate the area.
“For your safety, we urge everyone in Hodeida port and the vessels anchored there to evacuate the area immediately,” the Israeli army’s Arabic-language spokesperson Avichay Adraee said on X.
Speaking to Reuters, two sources at the port suggested that Israel’s strikes targeted three docks that had been restored after previous Israeli attacks. The attack last roughly 10 minutes, residents told the news agency.
Following the strikes, the Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said the Houthis would “continue to suffer blows” and “pay painful prices” if they attacked Israel.
Since Israel launched its genocidal war on Gaza in October 2023, the Houthis have carried out drone and missile attacks against it in solidarity with Palestinians under fire. They have also targeted vessels in the Red Sea.
In response, Israel has hit infrastructure such as ports and power stations in Houthi-held parts of Yemen and also bombed civilian areas.
In the last two weeks, the Houthis claimed responsibility for a drone strike against Israel’s Ramon Airport near the Red Sea city of Eilat that injured two people. The attack on Sunday, which targeted the arrivals hall, had halted operations at the airport for around two hours.
Dozens of people were killed in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, and the al-Jawf governorate in Israeli strikes on Wednesday. Hundreds gathered on Tuesday to attend the funeral services of 31 Yemeni journalists who died in the attacks.
On Thursday, the Israeli military said it intercepted a missile fired from Yemen.
Late last month, Israel assassinated the Houthi Prime Minister Ahmed al-Rahawi in another air strike in Sanaa, with the group promising “vengeance” for his death and the deaths of almost half of his cabinet.