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Champion walker Jared Tallent retires as Australia’s most decorated male track-and-field Olympian – ABC News
Jared Tallent, the Australian walker who had to wait four years to receive the Olympic gold medal he deserved, is forced by injury to retire without a fourth Games…
Jared Tallent will walk proudly into retirement as Australia’s most prolific Olympic male track-and-field medallist.
He can be just as proud of the public stance he took against the scourge of doping in sport mostly, in his case, the systemic cheating by Russian athletes that robbed him of major titles.
Olympics:
- Gold in 50km in 2012
- Silver in 50km in 2008 and 2016
- Bronze in 20km in 2008
World Championships:
- Silver in 50km in 2011, 2013 and 2015
Commonwealth Games:
- Gold in 20km in 2010
- Bronze in 20km…
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