The empty Olympic Stadium allowed their screams to be heard even in the third tier, where there are only cameras, and no volunteers. "Uah! Uah!" Screamed and screamed the Jamaican

Elaine Thompson-Herah

from the moment she crossed the goal and then, even before, four or five meters before revalidating her Olympic gold, she pointed to the screen that marked her time: 10.61 seconds, new record of the Games, the second best mark ever. He had warned in the semifinals, but his duel with his compatriot and former training partner

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

was unpredictable.

The two appeared in Tokyo with similar arguments for the title, similar times. The two appeared in Tokyo wanting revenge: Thompson for the last two World Cups and Fraser-Pryce for the 2016 Rio Games. And the two appeared in Tokyo with a similar hairstyle, blonde hair. The tension at the finish line, when Fraser-Pryce, runner-up, barely congratulated Thompson, showed the tension they had to experience every day on their tracks.

The third Jamaican, the young

Shericka Jackson

, who hung the bronze and closed the triplet did not know where to get.

Since the release of the American

Sha'Carri Richardson

for a positive in marijuana was known, the title for the Caribbean country was a certainty and in the end it was everything, the three medals, the entire podium, the umpteenth sample of the excellence of the Jamaican school.

There is no tradition like yours.

And who best demonstrates it is Thompson herself.

Merlene Ottey fan

Officially Thompson-Herah since she married former athlete Derron Herah in 2019, her beginnings are the result of that legend that traps children and invites them to fly. In her case, she spent her childhood watching the races of

Merlene Ottey

, double Olympic runner-up at the 1996 Atlanta Games, and asking to be taken to the tracks, to be taken to the tracks. From Manchester, one of the poorest parts of the country, her grandmother, who took care of her when she was only seven months old, took her one day and she still hasn't left there.

Although the road was not as bright as you might think.

Unlike other stars, such as

Usain Bolt

, who discovered vertigo in adolescence, Thompson went through school and high school competitions without pain or glory - in fact she was expelled from the team for bad behavior - and only in college did she begin to seem a champion.

In the 2015 World Cup in Beijing he presented a silver in the 200 meters and in the 2016 Rio Games he already dominated with the 100-200 double.

Then, at age 24, it was realized that she could lower the world record, those 10.49 seconds that the American

Florence Griffith-Joyner

recorded

33 years ago.

And the prognosis was not risky.

And the forecast made sense.

But then his Achilles tendon began to require attention, to annoy him, to torture him, and his times stayed as they were.

Until this Saturday.

In the semifinals, despite being carried away at the finish line, he already stopped the clock at 10.76, very close to his personal best at the time (10.70).

And in the end, wow!

In the last two World Cups she had not even been on the podium, to the glory of Fraser-Pryce in the last one, but she was found healthy ...

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