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Ato lashes ‘half-way’ prep
Gives pass to ‘aging’ men’s sprinters
Mark Pouchet :: Trinidad Express :: 25.08.2016Four-time Olympic medallist Ato Boldon has blasted the "half-way" preparation of the country's relay teams team for the just-concluded Rio Olympics.
Boldon, now a TV analyst and coach, said he had warned the National Association of Athletics Administrations (NAAA) that the women's team needed to improve from their 42.03-second 2015 Beijing World Championships bronze medal effort to mount the podium in Rio.
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Relay finish: Great Britain's Daryll Neita, centre, celebrates her team's third place at the end of the women's 4x100m relay final at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, last Friday. At right, Trinidad and Tobago's Khalifa St Fort gets to the line in fifth place. —Photo: AFP
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