Jamaican 400m runner Sandie Richards announces retirement
Posted Tuesday, 26 December, 2006
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) - Jamaican 400-metre runner Sandie Richards announced her retirement Sunday.
Richards, who won gold at the 2001 world championships and bronze at the 2004 Athens Olympics in the 4x400 relay, wants to concentrate on coaching.
"I've been toying with (retirement) for two years now," she said. "It's a hard thing to do, (but) my body couldn't handle the training anymore and I don't want to do anything else on the track internationally."
The 38-year-old Richards competed at four Olympics. She also won the 400 at the 1993 and 2000 World Indoor Championships and at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Malaysia.
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