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Athletes Voice Anger Over Plans To Wipe World Records
Athletes have reacted angrily to a European anti-doping proposal that could see them lose world records set before 2005.
Leading athletes have expressed outrage that many of their world records could lose official status under radical new anti-doping proposals from European Athletics. Also on the programme: the British Prime Minister sets out her approach to Brexit. And the problem of tooth decay across Africa.
(Photo: British former athlete Jonathan Edwards faces losing his 1995 triple jump record under proposed new rules. Credit: Getty Images)
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