By Eric Agyare- May 29, 2021
Jamaica’s two-time Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser- Pryce is hoping to end her illustrious career in what appears to be her last Olympics in Tokyo after her confident-booster win in Doha.
The 34-year-old four-time world champion timed an impressive season’s best of 10.84 seconds for the win, another important step in her quest to become the first female athlete to win three Olympic 100m golds after previously topping the podiums in 2008 and 2012 in Beijing and London respectively.
Fresh from finishing fourth in the opening elite meeting in a wet, wind-swept Gateshead last week, Fraser-Pryce made no mistake in the much balmier surroundings of the Qatari capital.
Fraser-Pryce, who also won 200m silver at the 2012 London Games and 100m bronze in Rio in 2016, beat home Nigerian Blessing Okagbare (10.90) and American Javianne Oliver (11.03).
“I’m happy that I put together a good race, and of course I’m happy that I won because its far away from the fourth place that I did last time,” the Jamaican said.
“It’s going to be my final Olympic appearance so I hope it will be good. The last three Olympics I went to I was able to stand on the podium and I’m hoping to be able to make it there again.”
Doha is the second stop on the 13-leg Diamond League circuit, with now only five more elite meetings before the Olympic Games in Japan, which start on July 23 after being postponed for a year because of the coronavirus pandemic.
