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Athletics

Champion Robles to retire - coach

Dayron Robles, the 2008 Olympic Games 110m hurdles champion and former world record holder, will retire from athletics owing to a lack of attention from Cuban sports officials, his coach said on Thursday. Robles, 26, pulled up injured in the 2012 Olympic final and has struggled to recapture his form of a few years ago when he won the Olympic title in Beijing after setting a world record of 12.87 sec in June 2008.