Final Olympics but Shelly-Ann not hanging up spikes
KINGSTON, Jamaica — It would appear that reports of Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce’s retirement from track and field might have been a false start.
For months, it has been reported that the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris would be the eight time Olympic medallist’s swan song and she would be hanging up her spikes afterwards.
In an interview with Jamaican journalists in Paris earlier this week, the 37 year-old emphasised “It’s the final Olympic Games; let me repeat that,” leaving the door open for her to continue her stellar career.
Fraser-Pryce who has run a world record 85 sub-11.00 seconds 100m races, is the third fastest ever over the distance with a personal best 10.60 seconds set in Lausanne, Switzerland in August 2021.
Only the world record 10.49 seconds set in 1988 by the late American Florence Griffith-Joyner and the Jamaica national record 10.54 seconds set by Elaine Thompson-Herah are faster than the ‘pocket rocket’.
— Paul A Reid
