Usain Bolt may be lengthy gone from the dash scene. It doesn’t suggest Jamaica has slowed down one bit.No person has, at the least not on the ladies’s aspect of the game.A gap day on the Olympics that is supposed to supply little greater than a brisk jog for the world’s finest at 100 meters became one thing very completely different Friday.Reigning world champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce ran her warmth within the practically empty Olympic Stadium in 10.84 seconds. Her Jamaican rival, defending Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah, completed in 10.82. And Marie-Josee Ta Lou, the Ivory Coast sprinter who completed an excruciating fourth in Rio de Janeiro, stored saying “Wow! Wow!” after she crossed the end line in a blistering private better of 10.78.They have been the fifth, sixth and seventh-fastest occasions of the yr, produced on a day when seven of 54 sprinters hit a private finest — all in an opening-round designed extra for shaking out cobwebs than watching the clock.All that despite the fact that the sector was lacking this season’s third-fastest runner, Sha’Carri Richardson, who’s again residence in the US following a doping ban.By comparability, just one runner, Fraser-Pryce, cracked 11 seconds within the opening spherical 5 years in the past in Rio de Janeiro. She went on to win the bronze, behind Thompson and American sprinter Tori Bowie.Fraser-Pryce is the favourite for Saturday’s closing, which is already residing as much as the hype. Fraser-Pryce ran a ten.63 again in June that has some pondering even Florence Griffith Joyner’s 33-year-old world file might lastly be in danger this yr.
Usain Bolt may be lengthy gone from the dash scene. It doesn’t suggest Jamaica has slowed down one bit.
No person has, at the least not on the ladies’s aspect of the game.
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A gap day on the Olympics that is supposed to supply little greater than a brisk jog for the world’s finest at 100 meters became one thing very completely different Friday.
Reigning world champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce ran her warmth within the practically empty Olympic Stadium in 10.84 seconds. Her Jamaican rival, defending Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah, completed in 10.82. And Marie-Josee Ta Lou, the Ivory Coast sprinter who completed an excruciating fourth in Rio de Janeiro, stored saying “Wow! Wow!” after she crossed the end line in a blistering private better of 10.78.
They have been the fifth, sixth and seventh-fastest occasions of the yr, produced on a day when seven of 54 sprinters hit a private finest — all in an opening-round designed extra for shaking out cobwebs than watching the clock.
All that despite the fact that the sector was lacking this season’s third-fastest runner, Sha’Carri Richardson, who’s again residence in the US following a doping ban.
By comparability, just one runner, Fraser-Pryce, cracked 11 seconds within the opening spherical 5 years in the past in Rio de Janeiro. She went on to win the bronze, behind Thompson and American sprinter Tori Bowie.
Fraser-Pryce is the favourite for Saturday’s closing, which is already residing as much as the hype. Fraser-Pryce ran a ten.63 again in June that has some pondering even Florence Griffith Joyner’s 33-year-old world file might lastly be in danger this yr.
