Elaine Thompson-Herah of Jamaica celebrates as she crosses the line to win gold in the Women’s 200m
Final at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics . REUTERS/Dylan Martinez
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By Nelson A. King
No woman had successfully defended
the 100m and 200m Olympic titles,
until Elaine Thompson-Herah blitzed
her rivals on the Tokyo track in 2021,
according to Olympics.com.
“Emphatic. Devastating. Magnificent:
Those words accurately described
Elaine Thompson-Herah as the Jamaican
sprinter made Olympic history with
her three track athletics golds at Tokyo
2020 in 2021,” said Olympics.com on
Wednesday.
It said the 29-year-old was only third
in June’s Jamaican trials over 100m and
200m behind her great rival Shelly-Ann
Fraser-Pryce and Shericka Jackson.
Fraser-Pryce went second on the alltime
women’s 100m list behind Florence
Griffith-Joyner with her 10.63 in
Kingston, the Jamaican capital, but
Thompson-Herah defeated her two
weeks later in Hungary with a season’s
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West Indies’ Stafanie Taylor. Action
Images via Reuters / Jason Cairnduff
WI Women’s
winning habit
By Azad Ali
West Indies Women’s Coach, Courtney
Walsh said the team is a work
in progress after winning their Twenty20
and One-Day International series
against Pakistan.
Walsh said the Stafanie Taylor-led
side “not the finished product as yet,
far from it” have shown a willingness to
learn and are prepared to work hard.
He added it was heartening to see
their enthusiasm and that the winning
habit also added a touch of confidence
to their game.
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WI Test squad
drops two
By Azad Ali
West Indies middle order batsman,
Darren Bravo and fast bowler,
l have been dropped from the provisional
17-man squad for the two Test
series against Pakistan, which started
last week in Jamaica.
West Indies Chief Selector, Roger
Harper said Gabriel was left out of the
squad to focus on his fitness, while
Bravo has been given time off due to an
extended period within the bio-secure
“bubble” of the West Indies camp.
Batsman Shamarh Brooks has been
recalled along with rookie fast bowler,
Chemar Holder to the squad.
Neither, Brooks, 32, nor Holder, 23,
have played since the two-Test tour of
New Zealand last December.
However, Brooks hit a 100 in a warm
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OLYMPIC
BLITZ
How Jamaica’s Elaine Thompson-Herah completed
her historic sprint ‘double-double’
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