Merlene Ottey

[ZZrunZZ]

Can anyone here explain this strange scenario:

A 43 yr (and 5 months) old woman from Jamaica
now running for Slovenia
making the IAAF World Indoor finals in the 60 meters

Huh???

And we are wondering about Barry Bonds, et al????

[ZZrunZZ]

Re: Merlene Ottey

My mistake...the heat results on the IAAF web site had her qualifying for the finals, but I just looked at the start list for the finals and she's not on it. Sorry about that.

[DentyCracker]

Re: Merlene Ottey

Her times are nothing special. Down 0.3 seconds off her best. Nothing too unusual about that. She was running around as fast a Gail Devers is when she was Devers' age. She has never had a really serious injury since 1980. (OK so an injured hammy cost her a medal in the 200 at Seoul) I don't find anything too strange about her times.