Impressive

At the age of 50, Merlene Ottey is still going strong. (thx for the tip JB)

From the Telegraph (UK)...

At 50 years of age, Slovenia's amazing Jamaican ran an anchor leg for her adopted country in the 4 x 100 metre relay heats [at the European Athletics Championships].

As all the cameras descended upon her afterwards and she was asked if this might have been her swansong, 30 years and three days after she had first competed at the 1980 Moscow Olympics, she disarmed any would-be sympathisers by assuring them that she intended to run in next year's World Championships in Daegu, South Korea.

There seems no reason to doubt the ageless wonder. She still looked pretty nifty here on Saturday, trimmer even than in her twenty-something heyday, as she sped down the home straight in the stadium where, a mere 18 years earlier, she had won a 200m bronze, one of her nine Olympic medals.

From Wikipedia...

Ottey holds the record for being the oldest track medalist ever, for running the fastest Women's Indoor 200 metres, for having the most Olympic appearances (seven) than any other track and field athlete, and for having the most women's World Championships medals (fourteen).