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Miller dropped from US relay squad
SYDNEY, Sept 29 (AFP) - American sprint star Inger Miller has been dropped from her country's 4 x 100 metres relay team and will leave Sydney on Saturday, her manager told AFP on Friday. The 28-year-old world 200m champion, a member of the 1996 Olympic winning squad in Atlanta, had trained on Thursday in preparation for the relay after missing both the 100 and 200m due to a hamstring injury. Miller, whose father Lennox is a two-time Olympic medallist, had been told by the team coaches that she was in the squad despite the fact she could not push off from a kneeling start. "There were a series of phone calls last night which involved Inger, me and the coaches," her manager Emmanuel Hudson said. "She told them that she couldn't push off with her leg and they came back and said don't worry you can run the anchor in the first round," he added. Hudson, half of the Hudson Smith International (HSI) elite stable of athletes, revealed though that Miller received another phone call from the coaching staff. "They called again and told Inger that they had fixed the situation and had no need for her," the Los Angeles-based lawyer said. "It's pretty poor behaviour to do that to an athlete who has been hit badly by not running in the individual events," he added.
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