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Ottey tests positive

Sprint heroine Merlene Ottey became the latest big-name track and field star to fail a drug test when it was revealed today she tested positive for the anabolic steroid nandrolone after a meet in Switzerland.

Ottey's management company, the Liechtenstein-based Fritz-Kaiser-group, said that Ottey failed a drug test fter winning the 100 metres on July 5 in Lucerne.

The statement said that Ottey will not participate at the World Championships starting here on Friday. Ottey has protested her innocence and was quoted as saying she will ''do everything to find out the truth and prove my innocence".

Ottey now faces a two-year ban from competition which would end her glamorous career spanning almost two decades and highlighted by heart-breaking defeats rather than triumphs.

UNI