[Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention.] Emma Lewis for World Voices: “A lot respect for the Jamaica sweep! Lovely sprinting!”
The balmy night of July 17 in Eugene, Oregon, USA, noticed a clear sweep by three high-speed Jamaican girls within the 100 meters ultimate on the World Athletics Championships.
As Jamaicans tuned in to dwell protection of the occasion on native tv, the outcomes introduced the weekend to an exhilarating and joyous conclusion. Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Shericka Jackson, and Elaine Thompson-Herah shot to first, second and third positions respectively within the 100 meters ultimate. For the trio, it was a repeat of their medal-winning efficiency (albeit in a unique order) finally summer time’s Olympic Video games in Tokyo, when Thompson-Herah set a brand new Olympic report. For 35-year-old Fraser-Pryce, it was her report fifth 100 meters title on the World Championships.
The Championships, which had been streamed dwell on Tv Jamaica, acquired in depth protection in each conventional and social media, with common every day updates. Jamaican women and men athletes participated in a complete of 14 occasions — 9 monitor and 5 area — boasting a very robust girls’s group. [. . .]
For full article, see https://globalvoices.org/2022/07/19/jamaicans-swept-away-by-their-women-sprinters-at-world-athletics-championships