KINGSTON, Jamaica— Anticipation is building for Saturday’s first race of the season for five-time World Championships women’s 100m champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce who is down to compete at the French Foray #3 at the National Stadium.

The 37-year-old who had announced that this would be her final season of competition, is expected to make her first appearance in a competitive race as she tunes for the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) national championships that will be held June 27-30.

Results from this championship event will be used to select the team for the Olympic Games in Paris later this year.

An injury suffered in the finals of the women’s 4x100m relay at last year’s World Athletics Championships had ended Fraser-Pryce’s season after she had won a silver medal in the 100m earlier.

Fraser-Pryce had only competed at three events, including the JAAA National Championships before last year’s World Championships, running 100m races in Switzerland and Spain and only contested the 200m at the Trials as she had a bye to Hungary after winning her fifth World Championships title a year earlier at the 2022 event in Eugene, Oregon.

Also down for the women’s 100m on Saturday are: Shashalee Forbes, Ashanti Moore, Jodean Williams and juniors Sabrina Dockery and Shanoya Douglas.

One hundred and forty men are down for the 100m led by World Indoor bronze medallist Ackeem Blake, Sandrey Davison, Kadrian Goldson, Jehlani Gordon, Bouwahjgie Nkrumie, Shakur Williams and junior DeAndre Daley.

-Paul A Reid