Fraser-pryce is Bolt’s pick for gol
Usain Bolt believes the only person that can stop his fellow Jamaican Shelly-ann Fraser-pryce from winning a third Olympic 100 metres title at the Tokyo Games is herself.
Only Bolt, at the last three Olympics, has previously managed the feat so Fraser-pryce would become the first woman to bag a hat-trick of 100m gold medals if she wins the final on July 31.
“I personally feel that Shelly is the only person who can lose this race,” Bolt told Reuters.
“I hope she doesn’t put too much pressure on herself going in because she’s in shape, she’s in form, all she has to do is go out there and execute and it shouldn’t be a problem.
“I’m looking forward to seeing her and I would be happy to share something like that, to win three Olympics with someone like Shelly-ann Fraser-pryce, as my countrywoman,” the retired sprinter added.
While Bolt won his trio of 100m golds at successive Games, Fraser-pryce won the title at Beijing in 2008 and London 2012 but managed just a bronze behind compatriot Elaine Thompson-herah and American Tori Bowie in Rio.
The diminuative Fraser-pryce clocked the fastest 100m time in more than three decades in 10.63 seconds in Kingston on June 5. Bolt was not surprised to see her running so well at the age of 34.
Reigning champion Thompson-herah, who also won the 200m to complete the sprint double in Rio, ran 10.71 in Hungary on July 6 and remains the biggest threat to Fraser-pryce’s record bid, according to NBC analyst and former sprinter Ato Boldon.
“I don’t see anybody other than Thompson-herah or Fraser-pryce winning the Olympic 100m,” the Trinidadian, who won four sprint medals at two Olympics, told Reuters.
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