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Your support makes all the difference.Merlene Ottey, with more major medals to her name than any other athlete in history, is being lined up to take part in the Colin Jackson- organised Welsh Games in Cardiff on 31 May. But Jackson, a training partner of Ottey's, is hopeful the 36-year-old, who has won 34 major championship medals, will include the Games on her venues for a planned world tour which will probably mark her retirement.
John Ngugi, the former Olympic 5,000 metres champion and five times world cross-country champion, has been refused a United States visa which would have allowed him to compete in Sunday's Los Angeles Marathon. Officials said they were concerned that the 34-year-old Kenyan was intending to move to the United States permanently.
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