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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 ...
Three weeks ago Merlene Ottey didn't expect to be featuring in the 100m at the Olympic Games in Sydney. Unless one of her compatriots gets injured, she won't be, though her failure to qualify for ...
You might well have missed it in the blink or two of an eye, but in 11.14 seconds yesterday Merlene Ottey raced her way into the Olympic record books.
Merlene Ottey competes in the Womens 4 x 100m Relay during the Aviva London Grand Prix at Crystal Palace on in London, England. Stu Forster/Getty Images ...
Eight-time Olympic medallist and runner, Merlene Ottey, obviously is a winner but at 44 years and making her seventh Olympic appearance she is admitting that winning no longer is her goal. "I have ...
Jamaican sprinter Merlene Ottey is not going to Athens merely to extend her own record by running in a seventh Olympic Games, she has every intention of getting to a fifth 100 metres final ...
STUTTGART, Germany — It took 10.81 seconds to run the women’s 100-meter — last night, then another hour and 45 minutes to decide who won.Olympic champion Gail Devers of the United States ...
Merlene Ottey won her first Olympic medal 24 years ago, as a youngster from Jamaica with big, fast dreams. It was 1980 in Moscow, when the United States boycotted the games and the Europeans were ...
Joan Bowen-Ottey, the first child, and mother of Merlene Ottey related what it was like as a child growing up. “I grew up more like a boy than a girl. At age 10, I learn to milk the cow.
Merlene Ottey competes in the Womens 4 x 100m Relay during the Aviva London Grand Prix at Crystal Palace on in London, England. Stu Forster/Getty Images ...
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