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Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Becomes Fastest Female Sprinter Alive | Sports

Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce became the fastest woman alive to run the 100 meter dash on Saturday and is second to only one other woman in history: Florence Griffith Joyner. Clocking an incredible 10.63 at a meet in Kingston on Saturday (June 5), Fraser-Pryce, blowing her competition away and obliterating the national record of 10.70 that she shared with Elaine Thompson-Herah, who won gold…

While the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Doha on Friday (28) is an important step for many athletes on the road to the Olympic Games in Tokyo, for Mutaz Barshim it also represents a key milestone in his career. It is a decade since the Qatari high jump star made his Diamond League debut on home soil, clearing 2.31m as a 19-year-old. Since then he has increased his best to 2.43m, just 2cm off…

Passing the baton – quite literally – to the next generation, with one final medal secured, an icon bowed out. Back in Japan, the nation where she made her first appearance on the world stage 18 years ago, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce made the 25th – and last – global podium of her illustrious career. Nine world championships and five Olympic Games later, the 38-year-old signed off in Tokyo by helping…

If you were to ask Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce to name two of her biggest passions, she’d say running track and hair care. Her interest in the former led to her becoming one of the greatest sprinters of all time in the sport, winning gold medals in the 100-meter race at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and the 2012 London Games (and being nicknamed “The Pocket Rocket” by the media).  Here’s where the…