Doha (AFP)

Impressive ease, Jamaican Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce made a sensational comeback at the top of the sprint flying over the 100 meters of the Doha Worlds on Sunday.

Two years after giving birth to her son Zion, the athletic (1.60m) athlete, with all the muscle and power, has relaunched a career that has been dormant due to maternity. For his first major championship since the 2016 Olympics in Rio, Fraser-Pryce did not go halfway with a staggering time (10 sec 71, best world performance 2019 to 1 hundredth of his personal best), s 'offering a 4th world title on the straight line, its eighth in total, to which we must of course add its two crowns to the 2008 and 2012 Olympics.

In front of the sparsely populated Khalifa Stadium, as the day before the 100m American Christian Coleman won, the Kingston racer had a big competition to watch with the British Dina Asher-Smith, triple European gold medalist in 2018 the devilish stride. But Fraser-Pryce, arrived in Qatar with the fastest time of 2019 (10 sec 73), was almost on mission and it is not the lack of atmosphere that could disarm her.

Author of a supersonic start, the Jamaican was never worried and Asher-Smith, 2nd, was largely behind despite a Great Britain record beaten in 10 sec 83. The Ivorian Marie-Josée Ta Lou completed the podium ( 10 sec 90).

Here is now Fraser-Pryce with a record as long as the arm at 32, enough to justify his nickname "Bolt feminine". Only shadow, the six-month suspension for doping with oxycodone (opioid) in 2010. But the owner of a hairdresser and likes to look after his hair with faded hair was able to remake a virginity, price of extraordinary longevity. As a symbol, once his success assured, she offered herself a lap of honor with his son in arms in front of bleachers already emptied.

- Two crazy contests -

If the public has once again failed, terrible story of these Worlds, the evening was perfect with two very beautiful competitions. At the triple jump, the long-awaited duel between the two Americans Christian Taylor and Will Claye has kept all its promises. Pushed into his entrenchments by his old accomplice and rival and on the verge of elimination after two tries bitten, Taylor (17.92 m) still ended up having the last word, as usual, adding a fourth world title to his collection.

The thriller was also full at the women's pole won by Anzhelika Sidorova. The Russian, who competes under a neutral banner because of the suspension of her country since 2015 after the revelation of a vast scandal of institutional doping, was neck and neck with the American Sandi Morris but won the award. crossing 4.95 m at his last try, the best jump of the year.

It was a terrible outcome for Morris, who again failed to take second place in a big open-air competition after long standing in the shadow of Greek Olympic champion Ekaterini Stefanidi, only 3rd (4.85m).

French side, the days follow each other and are alike. After the Saturday fiasco and the failures of Renaud Lavillenie (pole), Yohann Diniz (50 km walk), Jimmy Vicaut (100 m), Alexandra Tavernier (hammer) and Rénelle Lamote (800 m), it is this time Pierre- Ambroise Bosse who bit the dust.

The title holder of the 800 m did not have a lot of certainty anyway and tackled these Worlds without great references this season. He did not manage to outdo himself and was closed the doors of the final with a final place in his semifinal. For the Blues, it remains only Kevin Mayer (decathlon) and the two hurdlers Pascal Martinot-Lagarde and Wilhem Belocian (110 m hurdles) on whom to rely to avoid a poor record.

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