Merlene Ottey vs. Gwen Torrence & Gail Devers - Women's 100m - 1996 Zurich Grand Prix

[@Rafi-r6n]

Hey Merlene How are you You open the door for all Jamaica 🇯🇲 Runners We will never forget you And you are our Golden Girl.

[@TO-il9nc]

True

[@myprerogative1231]

Fi real

[@Gordonemerson9615]

No doubt fi real

[@leonardwhyte7004]

Amen to that.

[@deanharvey4739]

She has cheated out of the gold medal for so many years. Just happ now the testings are so advance the cream can rise to the top.🙏

[@kezz-iofficial4058]

At age 36. We Jamaicans should never ever forget the greatness and resilience of this magnificent Queen. I personally won’t forget you Marlene Otty ❤️❤️❤️

[@tailsthefox6568]

Merlene Ottey the Queen of Sprinting 🎉

[@dennisrobinson8008]

Have you heard Julien Alfred speak?

[@ameliabedelia7018]

Why do Jamaican women hate American women?

[@encorewithe2482]

I'm not Jamaican and I literally typed her name because I wanted to watch her greatness again 🙌🏾

[@calvinmcdonald1878]

I knew why Marlene Otty was so determined she posses the strength of the Zodiac sign of the Bull !!!

[@Christie.signsja]

So Shelly Ann is now winning at age 35 and we lord her but here's Merlene Ottey winning races at age 36 and I don't think she gets enough credit. Such an incredible lady she is phenomenal.

[@jomohector5274]

Shelly Ann is the greatest ever, major championships and Diamond league titles also most sub 11sec ever, being that said we all know how great Merlene Ottey was, no one is taking nothing away from her.

[@NevaUndaPressure]

Listen to the appreciation of the audience bestowed upon Ms. Ottey @ 0:25 Listen to the celebratory applause @ 2:30 she receives when she is announced as the winner. Ms. Ottey was one of a kind, her statistics speak for themselves, Technically sound, the most consistent Sprinter of all time & her longevity is unmatched. A great Ambassador for the sport.

[@leodavis700]

Well said queen merlene

[@shawngordon6626]

SHE CARIBBEAN QUEEN

[@bodystorm]

Well said!

[@trulysensitive5620]

Totally agree

[@Pistolwhipperz]

Amen! And a very respectful and pleasant sportswoman.

[@DiBaozi]

36 year old and she’s still got it!

[@dennisrobinson8008]

She was like 11.1 at 50 years old

[@jamdg54]

Shelley Ann Fraser that age and going strong

[@dennisrobinson8008]

Marlene Ottey I was speaking of.

[@markpeter4304]

Merlene " they" prevented you from being the greatestest female ever. But you inspired so many jamaican athletes , some of whom went on to become the greatest ever. Merlene, you have had the last laugh. You are truly the greatest ever.

[@ThembisaNzama]

I call her my queen, and I'm a South African. I grew up watching her

[@davidalexandregalioto7526]

Yes yes yes my favourite of all time merlene ottey big respect

[@leonardwhyte7004]

Mine too

[@dubbelhenke854]

Not only is Merlene very simpatico - look how she runs. Wonderful. In slow motion one can see why she was such a phenomenal sprinter, despite the start being her weak point.

[@bakarikush1863]

Marlene ottey greatest greatest female sprinter that ever lived...won 85 races in a row 100 n 200 meters..

[@NN-qy1dy]

What a beautiful woman is Marlene Ottey,always was my favorite athlet 👏💯👍👏💓

[@natronmeans6264]

FUN FACT: Believe it or not Ottey was still running competitive races at age 50..

[@singuntothelordinspiredbyt9140]

Very true...jamaican kids were condirioned early into physical fitness. Many communities dont have school busses and regular public transportation. Fromban early age kids are conditioned to run and walk to school, the store and just about everywhere. Track in jamaica is also an inexpensive leisure in rural communities..all kids need is a place to run sometimes bare footed. Kids get joy out of running. There is no hockey, no skating, rarely any swimming. Kids just run.

[@Marcking98]

You all heard the interview. ...as kid we don't run at the park we have to run to school. Nature and natural talent.

[@chicnoir29]

That’s the same recipe for Kenyan runners.

[@poohbita_88]

Damn, if Ottey's coach had worked on her start and drive phase Merlene would be unbeatable! Just look how far behind she was and came back to win this race. This is just amazing and unbelievable.

[@gena3136]

I was saying the same thing. If only she had that start.

[@jamdum2290]

Agree

[@Kevinschart]

all of their drive phases look pretty bad compared to modern standards.

[@mattie22]

Wonder who Merlene’s coach was during the 90s if they had of fixed her start and Drive phase she could had been running 10.5/10.6 she just popped up and started running.. I know she was working with lindford and Frankie Fredricks during this time. It’s a shame she could have been unbeatable her pick up from 60-70m was insane I wonder what her fasted top end was?

[@dennisrobinson8008]

@@mattie22 They were not good at 200m's back then, Michael Johnson changed all of that.

[@DS-ss7fp]

🥰😍Merlin Ottey, our first golden girl, Jamaica 🇯🇲 to the world

[@dwaynehall7231]

Wi first sprint queen ! This was the start of sprint era

[@ServingUptheT]

Thanks for uploading Jim I had many of these on video tape but lost some over the years so it’s great to see them again! Monaco ‘95 200m would be amazing!

[@mark1968]

She's so graceful ... and beautiful.

[@phoenixforce6595]

Thank you for posting the rest of the results. I really don't understand why the US broadcasters don't show us the full results it's really annoying.

[@dresheraton9276]

Did they lose? That's why.

[@Rafi-r6n]

Beat them ass Ottey That how we do it. You are still our Queen of the track

[@kechachung6895]

🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲 My Jamaican girl. My Jamaican girl. Love you beautiful. Your hard work is amazing. You have accomplished and your best is more than enough. You have made your everlasting mark on the tracks, for us and for your birth country. Let us continue to do our part to greatly appreciate you untill the end of time. Your grace is beautiful.

[@Bronzebk]

Marlene Ottey is & remains a Class Act.

[@dereckdean578]

Great athlete, Merlene Ottey.

[@mattie22]

Fast becoming my favorite channel it’s great to see these classics races over 20 years later great stuff 👌

[@lenofrass0391]

Who’s here watching because they wanted to see the woman that started it all for this era of Jamaican sprinters ?

[@suzycampbell1443]

Merlene you will always be our Jamaican Sprint Queen. You made us so proud. Back in those days when you were burning up the tracks , we didnt have cable television like we have now.

[@michaeldevaney5728]

@@suzycampbell1443 ottey is a very beautiful lady

[@CherDele]

An amazing woman and an amazing ambassador of the sport she represented for so manydecades......... Was thinking of her a few days ago. Can't remember why!

[@habeeblahodutola7991]

These three wonderful athletes was the reason I so much loved athletics. They are phenomenal in their own right. Lovely race.

[@mriyefa2196]

Jamaica has so many talented athletes. Ottey is one of my favorites.

[@musicmania1959]

Women's athletics was glorious in the nineties. Marlene was dominant

[@reckondragon2130]

She was always cheated by juiced up athletes.

[@markpeter4304]

@@reckondragon2130 thank you

[@AntoinetteGreen-we1je]

Who's here in 2024?....our queen👑🇯🇲🏃🏾‍♀️ of track......MERLENE OTTEY❗️❗️

[@sportnerd112]

Thanks for these uploads. Highly appreciated. Would be great to see the 1995 200m in Monaco with Torrence Privalova and ottey and the 1996 Monaco women's 400m with Perec and Ogunkoya

[@PePinmySteP]

and brussels 96, Perec losing to freeman ;)

[@jsnmad]

Yay! That was a happy moment for all Jamaicans when Merlene won this race.

[@trulysensitive5620]

Merlene Ottey. Proud of you. Clean runner Love Gwen too

[@jesusmorales2172]

La verdad muy merecido para una gran atleta por su humildad su talento su dedicación y su paciencia para continuar ya que si mal no recuerdo a ella le tocaron como oponentes a grandes corredoras ejem: florece grafito joyería evelyn ashford Wendy torrence etc

[@lurretta]

I am so proud of this great sprinter aka queen of the track

[@joelassee-wj1my]

As a trini I used to back her,tho she didn't get as many folds she was consistently top class and get this if there was no Merlene there'd b no mommy rocket ...Merlene ottey legend

[@pietrodi1]

finally a great final rush of Ottey!

[@michaelscott4400]

😢😢😢😢😢😢😢 it's just joy😭😭😭😭😭😭 I miss her

[@amoghkarambelkar5476]

My two all time favourite ladies... Ottey and Felix....and yes both great human beings... Period...

[@st.thomasjamaicanewssjn5981]

🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲 Yes we have it naturally Miss Ottey .My sprint queen👑❤

[@nilanthabakmeedeniya6308]

BEST OF THE BEST

[@fourkero1216]

Merlene Ottey😍! Always in my❤

[@alysiawilliams3040]

Nothing but love and respect for this legendary Queen. I remember staying up or waking up just to watch the races, the women have been putting in that work for years. # MarleneOttey#🇯🇲#🙏🏽for paving the way# Campbell# Fraser-Price#Thompson-Herah#Champions#Queens#ProudtobeJamaican🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲➡️🌍

[@HowardChang-mo5ln]

You are a gem Merlene. You have placed our tiny island on the center of the track and field universe,over and over again. I salute you my sister … Greatness lives on!!

[@gloriahumphreysthanksgivin5236]

The legendary Queen Merlene is the mother of Sprinting.

[@wendybritish6681]

World 🌎 class winning 🥇

[@nilanthabakmeedeniya6308]

CONGRATULATIONS

[@beautiful205]

Ottey couldn’t get a break because they ran enhanced and the mess all came to light. Merlene Ottey is the real GOAT

[@chicnoir29]

Has Gwen Torrence tested positive for enhancements?

[@prettirichbich2661]

From walking to school at 5yrs old to running some of the best races in Olympic history is something to be proud of. #StrongBlackWomen!!! #Heroine#BlackExcellence#SheDidThat!!!

[@sheryljohnson6449]

Back in the days lovecu girl

[@bisoafuayaa74]

Ottey was good for overstriding at the end of her races.

[@poohbita_88]

It is amazing how far she runs from behind in order to catch these other competitors. I really didnt think she was in that race at all. If only she worked on her start, she would have been unbeatable.

[@damonhugh9696]

Yes she was never a good starter but you bet your last dollar she has speed and strength endurance to catch up those in front and in some cases she wins.

[@mriyefa2196]

A strong finisher indeed

[@sevo12t]

She’s absolutely right about Jamaican sprinter’s over the years

[@shirangajayasekara8030]

Merlin is always character star in athletics..

[@deebrown5744]

As I as they remind you Marlene did this at 36 without the training of sprinters today if she had the Sprint technique of training should be the Golden girl n*****

[@Favouredandree]

Marlene Ottey is a star...Jamaica to the world.

[@totypr]

Amazing woman

[@nilanthabakmeedeniya6308]

AWESOME

[@nilanthabakmeedeniya6308]

SUPER

[@nilanthabakmeedeniya6308]

PERFECT

[@enriconamor2046]

Marlene was the only one who didn't use steroids...unlike the Americans. Great athlete maybe the best ever.

[@jamaicanpunch]

Our Jamaica queen❤

[@Godgirl1966]

This is amazing how Ottey is still ok and has no illnesses unlike some athletes who have taken enhancing substances... just saying! go Ottey!

[@leonardwhyte7004]

Europe favorite athlete for years.

[@nilanthabakmeedeniya6308]

GREAT

[@stevefayson6922]

Wi still a type even in 2021 the greatest female sprinter the world have ever seen blessed love sprint queen 👑🙏💕

[@matthewstylianou8363]

Looked like Torrence stepped into Devers lane at the start!

[@vitarioospina3415]

Shelly Ann and Marlene were champions throughout their entire careers 🙏🏿

[@rackelbeetle5180]

Merlene such a great athlete 👏

[@baburajartist7195]

Merlin otty❤️❤️

[@shaunapinnock7303]

*The commentator is commentating fuckery! He said, “Torrence, as she drifts into Devers’ lane, almost”, but whole time, for the greater part of the race, Devers drifted into Torrence’s lane and *ESPECIALLY* into the finishing half, one could say Devers swung almost completely out of her lane, humbugging Torrence! That’s craaaaazy!!!!!*

[@giulioproietti5588]

Evelyn e Marlene sono le velociste natural piu' grandi di tutti i tempi

[@jamdum2290]

The queen got a bad start and still won

[@damel1847]

Today im going fo do pep next week wednesday and she was in the mock paper i got im from jamaica,and i just could not keep myself from not watching a video of hed

[@mariastewart8810]

YAAAASSS MERLENE the G.O.A.T!!! Show dem how to do it!!! Btw u Ms Ottey are overdue for a visit to di Rock. Make it happen!😃😜

[@singuntothelordinspiredbyt9140]

Darn..then she lost the olympics gold at 36 years old..and yes back then Jamaican students walked miles and hours per day to and from school.

[@chicnoir29]

She also won bronze at forty.

[@tcrickettsshirley4250]

Merlene Jamaica love you

[@cariocabassa]

Queen Merlene Ottey!!!🇯🇲🇯🇲👍🏼

[@ithamorarowe4269]

Merlene Merlene

[@Combustion47]

One hell of an athlete

[@smartd111]

Jamaica's current athletes have made her proud am sure of it!

[@guzelfetkulina9599]

Golden times❤

[@applecandyfolks7979]

Yeah meelene won back her gold

[@marciamanhertz6220]

Then they start taking drugs to compete against Ottey.. my Gurl that

[@kevinlang7510]

I’m gonna say this JAM produced some of the ALL TIME greats Merlene Juliet Grace..... Lennox Donald Herb and truly magnificent but I’m not understanding how a lot of people now want to continue to point fingers at other sprinters today When MOST now from this place are DAMN near unbeatable SMH How is it that after all these years OOOOOOOOH now u know how to train people to break WRs 10 meters from the finish throwing their arms up or they couldn’t break 10.9 for 4/5 years because of “injury “....hmmmmm Then can run 10.54?!!! I mean just makes U think old EG tactics to say the least........

[@blessydgazadiva5121]

Best Female Athlete 👟 Of All Time Free of Diet Coke

[@bigtexan7562]

What a beautiful woman Merlene Ottey is….

[@shanalynch2801]

I wish I could meet her to let her know mi lobe her to mi heart! A true Queen!

[@treciajohnson1474]

Yes Merlene would beat them in the meet's but when it comes to the world and Olympic championships they would beat her by using drugs

[@michaeljakob1033]

Yes. Merlene was the best for several decades

[@poohbita_88]

@Dom Dom She did not serve a ban. she was cleared of doping violations. get your facts straight! I dont support the allegation against Devers and Torrence, but Merlene was clean and won every medal she received between 1980 to 2000 Olympics and Worlds, fair and square. She was just naturally talented, gifted and had longevity. She even made the semifinals of the 2004 Olympics! Allyson Felix is 20 yrs in the game and is still running at peak level...so Merlene is not alone in the category of longevity and endurance.

[@poohbita_88]

@Dom Dom Do you even know why the suspension was lifted? It was because Nandrolene is naturally produced by the body and the levels found in her body was below the minimum IAAF levels considered to be doping/externally administered. Naturally produced nandrolene spikes during a female's menstrual cycle and when engaged in rigourous activities. At the time Merlene ran and was tested, she was on her period and ran 2 races, 90 minutes apart. So the natural nandrolene in her body increased. When the IAAF Appeal Board took away/subtracted the increase caused by her period and rigourous activity, they found her levels to be way below the doping threshold. So sir, No1 is saying she didnt test positive, but her positive result were due to naturally produced chemicals. If you care to read the judgment it is on the IAAF website boo. I doubt you will thou: trying to taint Merlene's legacy seem to be your bread and butter. Know your facts thou...#stayblessed. The ban wasnt reduced, it was lifted, eliminated and nullified as if it never occurred! She was not penalised, none of her results were nullified and ALL her results stand as of this day! Oh, and she got 2 more medals in Sydney despite not training for a year!

[@poohbita_88]

@Dom Dom Only you are whispering boo. She is admired by ALL. #stayblessed.

[@pmodel1]

@Dom Dom Facts! Loved Merlene Ottey but these are the facts. I didn't trust her times from the mid to late 90's. Amazing how now people want to suddenly discount any and all American accomplishments from the 90's in the women's sprints

[@CeciliaCarleen_Stories]

PHENOMENAL WOMAN MY ISLAND GIRL. LOVE FOREVER

[@eleonoraprovenzano]

Gail Devers forever!

[@mriyefa2196]

Strong stater indeed.

[@eleonoraprovenzano]

@@mriyefa2196 Strong everything!

[@andrewbarnes8650]

That our girl 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿

[@poolalien]

i am see this one more time and i am cry little because i am love the jamaicans peopple and the beautifull womans don mather what color you are is simple good is good good bless all womans in the world and the peopple from one mexican maybe one day travel for jamaica is my dream

[@didi33333]

Ottey made a race out of it.

[@marciaosborne6377]

The queen

[@sumanadasakapugamage9725]

Oty is the best that time Iam very sad she never win, w o. Champion

[@rishkesh1956]

1:02 Boing!

[@nilanthabakmeedeniya6308]

GOOD EVENING

[@mariej.richard5114]

Yes mam miss Gwen queen

[@normangreco3119]

Merlene my love

[@jobalard1688]

Africa 💪💪💪💪