Perec is back in training routine

13 April 2012

Double Olympic champion Marie-Jose Perec is reported to back in training in her native island of Guadeloupe.

The Frenchwoman, who walked out of the Sydney Olympics after claiming she had been threatened in her hotel, is training in the island's capital.

Perec, who won the 200 and 400 metres in Atlanta in 1996, has refused to talk to journalists but her return to training coincides with that of Cathy Freeman, the Sydney 400m gold medallist.

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