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- ↑ "O". Norwegian Athletics. Retrieved 24 July 2016.
- ↑ "Norwegian Sprinter Faces Lifetime Ban (Published 2006)". The New York Times . Archived from the original on 2018-09-17.
- ↑ Okeke utestengt på livstid (in Norwegian)
