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Alan Wells won Olympic

On July 25, 1980 in Celtic History

Alan wells won olympic

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Allan Wipper Wells MBE (born 3 May 1952) is a Scottish former track and field sprinter who became the 100 metres Olympic champion at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.

Within a fortnight of that, he also took on and beat America’s best sprinters at an invitational meeting in Koblenz.

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