Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce of Staff Jamaica after ending 2nd throughout spherical 1 of the ladies’s 100m on the Stade de France throughout the 2024 Paris Summer season Olympic Video games in Paris, France.
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Jamaican sprinting legend Shelly Ann Fraser-Pryce has revealed that this month’s World Championships in Tokyo will likely be her final hurrah. She intends to retire from the observe after having redefined what is feasible for girls in sports activities.
The 38-year-old, often called one of many biggest sprinters of all time, will compete within the girls’s 100 metres on the Championships, which is able to run from Sept. 13 to 21.
Fraser-Pryce, a three-time Olympic and ten-time world gold medallist, will compete for yet another season in 2025 on the World Championships after withdrawing from the 100 metres closing ultimately yr’s Paris Olympics because of damage.
“I didn’t get the chance to do what I do know I may have carried out in that second, and it was hurtful.”
“It was the primary time in my whole profession that I’ve by no means been in a position to step to a line to compete,” Fraser-Pryce stated.
Regardless of restricted races this season, the sprinter recognized affectionately because the “Pocket Rocket” certified for her ninth world championships by ending third on the Jamaican trials within the 100m.
Fraser Pryce referred to as it a “full-circle second” from her first world championships in Osaka in 2007, the place she traveled as a reserve for the 4x100m relay workforce.
“I simply keep in mind being so not sure of who I used to be, having very mediocre objectives, and simply completely satisfied to be there.”
“Quick ahead to being right here now, having the ability to be on this second and assured of who I am, the girl I am, the mom I am, the athlete I am, it’s simply such a outstanding feeling,” Fraser-Pryce stated.
