Athlete to Watch - Elaine Thompson-Herah

  • 2 months ago
The Jamaican sprinter is looking to retain 100m and 200m golds for a third consecutive Olympics in Paris
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00:00I think you can see from her that she's always a championship performer, you know, she's
00:24had some injury issues in the past, but she comes out and she performs at championships.
00:29But not to say that that is, you know, it's an incredibly tough event.
00:33You've got Shabika Jackson, you've got Shelly-Ann Fraser-Christ, you've got Sha'Carri Richardson,
00:38you know, it's a loaded field, so it's going to be, I mean, it can go any way really, but
00:43she's definitely up there for, you know, contending again for a gold.
00:57It's possible.
00:58It's possible.
00:59It depends on, obviously, it's going to depend on the track.
01:02If it's not the Tokyo track, we don't know what she's capable of doing.
01:06She ran very, very fast there, and I think those kinds of times are going to be much
01:11harder to run on normal tracks and aren't that super mondo that they had in Tokyo.
01:18So, but she's the best women's sprinter in history.
01:23She's proved it over and over.

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