Jamaican Sprinter Fraser-Pryce To Make Paris Games Her Fifth And Final Olympics – News18

Jamaican nice Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce mentioned the Paris Games will probably be her fifth and remaining Olympics.

The 37-yr-previous sprinter, who gained two gold medals at 100 meters and one other within the 4×100 relay, advised Essence.com she nonetheless loves the game however will retire after Paris so she will be able to spend extra time along with her husband and her 6-yr-previous son, Zyon.

“My son needs me,” she mentioned. “My husband and I have been together since before I won in 2008. He has sacrificed for me. We’re a partnership, a team. And it’s because of that support that I’m able to do the things that I have been doing for all these years. And I think I now owe it to them to do something else.”

When Fraser-Pryce completed second as an unknown on the Jamaican Olympic trials in 2008, a lot of the dialog centered on whether or not she ought to be handed over for the extra established Veronica Campbell Brown. That didn’t occur. A number of weeks later, Fraser-Pryce went on to guide a Jamaican sweep within the 100 on the Beijing Games. It was the primary of her eight Olympic medals. She additionally gained 4 silvers — together with one in Tokyo in 2021 — and one bronze.

“I undervalued myself going into Beijing,” she mentioned within the interview with Essence. “I just wanted to make the finals. But when I crossed the line in first place, from that moment, I’ve never undervalued myself. I’m not just here for participation. I’m here to win.”

She additionally has gained 10 gold medals at world championships, together with six particular person championships — 5 within the 100 and one within the 200. In 2019, she returned after the delivery of her son and have become the oldest girl to win the world title. She gained it once more in 2022 at age 35, which made her the primary athlete to win 5 titles in a person working occasion.

Fraser-Pryce completed third on the worlds final yr and is taken into account a contender in Paris, together with defending world champion Sha’Carri Richardson and two-time defending Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah. She mentioned it’s vital to be leaving the game on her personal phrases, and that the choice isn’t about whether or not she will be able to nonetheless compete on the highest degree.

“There’s not a day I’m getting up to go practice and I’m like, ‘I’m over this,’” Fraser-Pryce mentioned.

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