June 28, 2024; Eugene, OR, USA; Sha’Carri Richardson wins the ladies’s 200m in 21.92 seconds on the U.S. Olympic Workforce Trials at Hayward Subject Celebrating after successful the preliminary spherical. Obligatory Credit score: Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports activities PARIS – American world champion Sha’Carri Richardson, this yr’s 100m world report holder, stays the gold medal favourite with a time of 10.71 seconds, whereas two-time Jamaican 200m world champion Shericka Jackson Jackson withdrew from the sport.
The final time the US received a 100-meter title was 28 years in the past, when Gale Devers took the rostrum on the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. In 2000, American Marion Jones crossed the end line first in Sydney however was stripped of her gold medal for doping.
The ladies’s 100m heats will start on the second day of monitor and area competitors on the Stade de France on Friday, with the semi-finals and remaining on Saturday.
Jackson is not going to compete within the dash doubles on the Paris Olympics, saying she is giving up the 100m to guard her physique.
Jackson, 30, who withdrew on account of harm in his remaining race earlier than the Olympics in Hungary on July 9, received the 100 meters on the Jamaica trials final month in a season-best time of 10.84 seconds.
“It is a mixture of things,” Jackson mentioned throughout a media occasion at Puma Home on Wednesday. “I used to be injured in Hungary and it was a very good resolution to play in a match.
“I believe it is simply to guard my physique. I have been competing in each tournaments for the previous three years and I believe this (resolution) is a mixture of simply specializing in one match and (what occurred in Hungary) issues))”.
Jackson additionally received silver medals on the 2022 and 2023 World Championships and a dash bronze medal on the Tokyo Olympics.
The sight of Jackson exiting the sport injured on the István Gyule Memorial Corridor in Hungary shocked the whole sports activities world. She led with about 50 meters to go earlier than stopping and limping throughout the road.
“I believe (withdrawing from the 100 meters) was a very good resolution,” she mentioned. “The coach and I decided that was in the perfect curiosity of each of us.
“I am at all times calm,” she added. “You must do what’s greatest to your physique, your thoughts and your soul. I am proud of this resolution.”
Jamaica athletics supervisor Ludlow Watts revealed earlier on Wednesday that Jackson had given up her spot.
“Within the ladies’s 100 meters, Shashalee Forbes changed her. I do not know why, I am simply coping with the outcomes.”
Forbes positioned fourth within the 100 meters on the Jamaica Trials with a time of 11.04 seconds.
First-time Olympian Tia Clayton and two-time Olympic 100m champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce will give Jamaica medal hopes within the blue ribbon occasion.
Elaine Thompson-Herah received a dash double at Rio 2016 and once more in Tokyo three years in the past, however she won’t be able to defend her title after withdrawing from the Jamaican trials with an Achilles tendon harm .
——Reuters, on-site media particular report
