KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Elaine Thompson-Herah will ramp up her preparations for subsequent 12 months’s worldwide monitor & subject season below the steering of Elite Efficiency Observe Membership coach Reynaldo Walcott.
A press release from her administration firm, Andi Sports activities, confirmed on Monday that the embattled Jamaican dash queen had attached with Walcott, who coaches Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, with whom Thompson-Herah seems to have a frosty relationship.
Media stories point out that Thompson-Herah is not going to be coaching with athletes of the Elite Efficiency in Kingston. Nonetheless, Walcott will work together with her privately after finishing his duties on the Ashenheim Stadium at Jamaica School every day.
Andi Sports activities confirmed final Wednesday that the 31-year-old had separated from Shanikie Osbourne, her coach, through the later phases of this previous worldwide monitor & subject season after a breakdown in negotiations over compensation.
Thompson-Herah gained a historic dash double of 100 meters and 200 meters at back-to-back Olympics – 2016 within the Brazilian metropolis of Rio-de-Janeiro, and the COVID-19 delayed 2020 Video games within the Japanese metropolis of Tokyo – and shall be seeking to defend her titles on the Video games subsequent 12 months in Paris.
She didn’t earn a spot on the Jamaica crew for this 12 months’s World Athletics Championships in August within the Hungarian capital of Budapest, the place she introduced Osbourne onto her teaching employees.
Thompson-Herah, the second-fastest girl, clocked over 100 with a private finest time of 10.54 seconds and improved her instances considerably over the later phases of the worldwide season. Therefore, the choice to half methods with Osbourne was shocking in monitor & subject circles in Jamaica.
Solely deceased American dash queen Florence Griffith-Joyner, who clocked 10.49 seconds at america Olympic Trials in 1988, has run quicker than Thompson-Herah within the 100.
Earlier within the 12 months, Thompson-Herah had break up with the extremely adorned MVP Observe Membership in a public falling out with iconic coach Stephen Francis.
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