Merlene Ottey to run in Euro Championships.... at 50!

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Topic: Merlene Ottey to run in Euro Championships.... at 50!

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Merlene Ottey to run in Euro Championships.... at 50!

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She is in the Slovenian women's 4x100 m relay team for this year's European Championships in Spain. You'd think at 50 she would give it a rest. I guess there is a small talent pool in Slovenia. Why is she a citizen of Slovenia anyway?

Jamaican sprint legend in Slovenia 4x100m team

BARCELONA, Spain Fifty-year-old Merlene Ottey could become the oldest athlete to compete at the European Championships after Slovenia named the sprinter to its 4x100 metres relay team.

Ottey, a naturalised Slovenian of Jamaican origin, would make her Barcelona debut in the July 31 heats.

She has won 29 medals at major competitions, including seven Olympics starting with Moscow in 1980.

Ottey, who first raced for Slovenia in the championships four years ago, has already clocked 11.84 seconds over 100 metres this season. She was second in the Slovenian championships.

French marathon runner Nicole Brakebusch-Leveque is currently the oldest athlete to compete in the European games at the age of 47.

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I have mad respect for all that Merlene Ottey has done for us, it's one thing to have so much love & passion for something that you love to do but it comes a time when you have to say well time to hang up the spikes. __________________ THE WAGES OF BLESSINGS IS EVER LIVING LIFE! GUNNERS SOUND IT...BOOOOM!!!