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Explanation between Jamaicans on 100 m

Battle at the top between Jamaican sprinters expected, with Elaine Thompson-Herah, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Shericka Jackson.

The first achieved the 100m-200m double at the last two editions of the Olympic Games, in Rio and Tokyo, but was never crowned individual world champion.

The second is her outgoing world champion of the queen race.

And the third goes down successfully from the 400m to the short sprint, to the point of landing in Eugene in the shoes of the second best performer of the season in 10 sec 77. Behind Fraser-Price (10.67) and ahead of Thompson-Herah (10.79) .

Jamaica's Elaine Thompson-Herah celebrates her victory in the 100m final ahead of her compatriots Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (3rd l) and Shericka Jackson (l), at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, on July 31, 2021 at the Jewel SAMAD Olympic Stadium AFP/Archives

Fanciful and exuberant attraction, the American Sha'Carri Richardson is not there: she did not pass the cut of the American selections at the end of June.

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Allen as pack leader in 110m hurdles?

This is one of the world records likely to fall on the Oregon track, under the assault of American hurdlers.

Devon Allen, best performer of the season and who will switch to American football after these Worlds, approached it only four hundredths in mid-June in New York (12.84 against 12.80).

American Devon Allen, during the 110m hurdles final at the American selections, June 26, 2022 in Eugene (Oregon) Sean M. Haffey GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP/Archives

But his three compatriots who follow him in the world balance sheets, the outgoing world champion and Olympic silver medalist in Tokyo last summer, Grant Holloway, in the lead, have not said their last word.

Nor the reigning Olympic champion, the Jamaican Hansle Parchment.

What if the French pulled out of the game in this event which has historically succeeded for them?

Two profiles apply there: the thirty-year-old income from everything Pascal Martinot-Lagarde and the nugget with the vertiginous progression Sasha Zhoya.

The joy of Frenchman Sasha Zhoya, winner of the 110m hurdles final at the French Championships, June 25, 2022 in Caen Sameer Al-DOUMY AFP / Archives

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Crouser like at home

The threat to the world record is even more specific in the shot put as Ryan Crouser, a native of Portland, about two hours drive from Eugene, is at ease in Hayward Field.

It was precisely in this stadium that he seized the world record in June 2021 during the Olympic trials, with a throw of 23.37 m.

Here again, the reigning double Olympic champion came closer to 25 cm at the end of last month (23.12 m), again during the American “trials”.

American Ryan Crouser, during weight qualifying at the World Athletics Championships, July 15, 2022 in Eugene (Oregon) Christian Petersen GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP

During qualifying on Friday, Crouser (29) announced the color by pushing the competition more than 80 cm.

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