Jamaica’s Elaine Thompson-Herah poses for photographs following her win within the ladies’s 100 meters through the Prefontaine Traditional monitor and area meet Saturday, Could 28, 2022, in Eugene, Ore.
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Elaine Thompson-Herah will ramp up her preparations for subsequent yr’s worldwide Observe and Subject season below the steerage of Elite Efficiency Observe Membership coach, Reynaldo Walcott.
An announcement from her administration firm, Andi Sports activities confirmed that the embattled Jamaican dash queen had connected with Walcott, who coaches Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, with whom Thompson-Herah seems to have a frosty relationship.
Media reviews point out that Thompson-Herah won’t be coaching with athletes of the Elite Efficiency in Kingston, however Walcott will work along with her in a non-public setting after he completes his duties on the Ashenheim Stadium at Jamaica Faculty every day.
Andi Sports activities confirmed just lately that the 31-year-old had separated from Shanikie Osbourne, her coach through the later levels of this previous worldwide monitor & area season, after a breakdown in negotiations over compensation.
Thompson-Herah gained a historic dash double of 100 metres and 200 metres at back-to-back Olympics — 2016 within the metropolis of Rio-de-Janeiro, in Brazil. The COVID-19 delayed the 2020 Video games within the Japanese metropolis of Tokyo and shall be seeking to defend her titles on the Video games subsequent yr in Paris.
She didn’t earn a spot on the Jamaica staff for this yr’s World Athletics Championships in August within the Hungarian capital of Budapest, the place she introduced Osbourne onto her teaching workers.
Thompson-Herah, the second-fastest lady clocked over 100 with a private greatest time of 10.54 seconds.
