Whoa!”Had Elaine Thompson-Herah not begun her celebration just a tad precipitately, she might very well have broken the women’s 100-metre world record that has been held by the late, great Florence Griffith Joyner since 1988. That iconic glitter now belongs to the 29-year-old from a little Jamaican farming community called Banana Ground. Jamaican women have won every single sprint track title at the Games since Beijing, racking up 10 of 12 medals in the 100 and 200. Behind that smile and that Olympic record, I’m super-nervous. At 60 metres, powering through, she’d created clear separation, an insurmountable gap, and it was evident who would triumph.

Source: thestar July 31, 2021 21:11 UTC