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Season best for Ottey
LJUBLJANA, Aug 14 (AFP) - Jamaican sprint star Merlene Ottey ran her fastest 100m race of the year here on Monday, clocking 11.00sec, the STA news agency reported. The time beat the 11.06 she ran in Zurich on Friday night, but is still a long way from the '10.70s' she pledged to run providing she could remain fit and healthy. Ottey, 40, who has been training in Slovenia since May, is still chasing her first Olympic title and intends to run in Sydney despite finishing only fourth in the final of the Jamaican Olympic trials in a modest time of 11.27. Peta Gaye Dowdie, Beverley McDonald and Tanya Lawrence won the right to run the 100m at Sydney, but Ottey claims she will be quicker than all of them when the Olympics come round. "I know I will be the fastest Jamaican around by the time the Olympics arrive. If I can only run in the relays, I will not compete... I will retire," said Ottey, who had planned to make the Olympics her swansong after a glittering career. Ottey is Jamaica's most revered athlete, having won a record 23 world championships medals. Jamaica's Amateur Athletic Association officials have hinted they will enter the former double 200m champion, but it remains unclear who she would bump from the lineup. Ottey only returned to competition shortly before the Jamaican trials after her ban for testing positive for nandrolone.
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