Tag: Elaine Thompson-Herah

Sha’Carri Richardson sent a message to her Olympic competition ahead of the Prefontaine Classic

This is going to be so good.

We missed out on a potentially incredible 100 metre Finals at the Olympics this year with Sha’Carri Richardson’s absence.

The American track star was suspended from the competition after she tested positive for marijuana in a drug test she took during Olympic trials.

She’d explained that she was coping with the loss of her biological mother just before trials began and was struggling mentally. Despite her struggles, however, her 100 metre trial time of 10.72 was invalidated because of the test and she was disqualified from the Olympic competition. It was heartbreaking to see. None of it felt fair.

But, very soon, we’ll get a chance to see the Olympic Final that wasn’t.

Sha’Carri will race against Elaine Thompson-Herah, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Shericka Jackson in the Prefontaine Classic on August 21. She’ll face up against the entire Olympic podium, among others. That’s pretty exciting.

Richardson had shared a message for her competition via social media. She took a popular Nicki Minaj clip and put it to good use.

Warning: There is some NSFW language in this video

The clip goes:

“I took some time of to rest and now it’s gametime, [expletive]. You have no idea.” 

Those are some pretty confident words from a rightfully confident sprinter. Richardson posted the 6th fastest 100m time ever in her 10.72 run for trials. But, of course, Fraser-Pryce and Thompson-Herah already eclipsed that this year. So the competition is obviously stiff.

All this means is that we’re all in for a pretty incredible race. I can’t wait.

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See Elaine Thompson-Herah lead Jamaican sweep of 100 meters, break Florence Griffith Joyner’s Olympic record

Elaine Thompson-Herah is the fastest woman in the world.

Track and field legend Florence Griffith Joyner’s 100-meter Olympic record stood for a remarkable 33 years, and even as athletes collected their Olympics gold medals in the decades since, her mark of 10.62 from the 1988 Seoul Olympics was unbeatable.

Enter Elaine Thompson-Herah.

The two-time Olympian from Jamaica not only defended her Olympic gold from the 2016 Rio Games, but she also broke Griffith Joyner’s Olympic record by .01 seconds with a blistering 10.61 sprint in the women’s 100-meter dash final on Saturday at the Tokyo Olympics.

And with that gold-medal run, Thompson-Herah led a Jamaican sweep of the event, as Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce won silver with a time of 10.74 and Shericka Jackson won bronze at 10.76.

Thompson-Herah posted the second fastest time ever in the event behind Griffith Joyner’s world record of 10.49 — which she set in 1988 before the Olympics that year.

As the Associated Press noted, this was the first Jamaican sweep of the 100 meters since the women did it at the 2008 Beijing Games, when Fraser-Pryce won gold. Fraser-Pryce — who was favored to win Saturday after she clocked a 10.63 sprint ahead of the Tokyo Games — now has two Olympic golds, a silver and a bronze in the 100 meters.

It was an incredible 100-meter final, and Thompson-Herah is, once again, the fastest woman in the world.

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