Track: Ottey wins comeback race

By SUZANNE McFADDEN

Merlene Ottey is back - but with hardly a whimper - after a year's ban from the track.

The Jamaican sprint legend, who has won seven Olympic medals over a period of 20 years, won her comeback race yesterday, but her victory was over a field of no-names in a tiny mountain town in Sardinia.

Her time of 11.42s for the 100m was well outside what she had hoped to run, but she blamed the unseasonal cold.

Ottey is driven to make the Olympics, a year after she tested positive for the steroid nandrolone. Her suspension from athletics was dropped two weeks ago.

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