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Bolt, Fraser-Pryce are IAAF athletes of the year

Usain Bolt and Shelly Ann Fraser-Pryce with trophies.

Jamaican sprinters Usain Bolt and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce were chosen world athletes of the year on Saturday amid increasing scrutiny into the efficiency of their country’s anti-doping programme.

Bolt received the IAAF award for the fifth time. He won the 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay at the World Championships in Moscow last month. He won the same three races at the 2008 and 2012 Olympics and 2009 worlds.

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