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Budd: I wouldn't run in '84 Olympics again

Zola Budd says if she had her time again she wouldn't compete at the 1984 Olympics.

Budd infamously clashed with Mary Decker in the 3000m, which caused Decker to fall halfway through the race in Los Angeles.

"I wouldn't have run the 1984 Olympics definitely not, no," the former British athlete told 5 live Sport's Sonja McLaughlin.

"For me as an athlete it would have been better to get into professional competition gradually rather than be thrown into the Olympic Games."

This clip is from 5 live Sport on Thursday 28 July 2016.

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