BARCELONA, SpainBARCELONA, Spain — Fifty-year-old Merlene Ottey is the oldest athlete to compete at the European Championships after anchoring Slovenia’s 400 women’s relay team. Ottey, a naturalized ...

Sprinter Merlene Ottey, aged 48, failed by .028 of a second in her final attempt to achieve the 100 metres qualifying time that would have enabled her to become the first athlete to compete in eight ...

ATHENS, Aug. 20 -- It's not just that Merlene Ottey is old at 44; it's that she's 44 and an Olympic sprinter. It's not just she's 44 and sprinting; she ran the second-fastest time Friday in the first ...

Jamaican sprinter Merlene Ottey’s two-year ban for steroid use was lifted Monday after the IAAF, track’s governing body, said a lab had improperly tested her urine sample. The decision means the ...

Fifty-year-old Merlene Ottey became the oldest athlete to compete at the European Championships after anchoring Slovenia’s 4x100 women’s relay team on Saturday. Ottey, a naturalised Slovenian of ...

In the latest chapter of a brilliant career besmirched by a succession of controversies in recent years, Jamaican sprinter Merlene Ottey appears set to take out Slovenian citizenship. The Olympic ...

Gothenburg: Merlene Ottey made her European Championship debut on Tuesday at the age of 46. The Jamaica-born sprinter, who now lives in Slovenia and competes for her adopted country, advanced from the ...

Jamaican-born sprinter Merlene Ottey will race twice in four days in a last-ditch effort to become the first athlete to take part in eight Olympic Games. Ottey, 48, will run at meetings in the ...

The former Jamaican sprinter became the oldest athlete in the history of the competition after surpassing the record held by 47-year-old French marathon runner Nicole Brakebusch-Leveque. And despite ...

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