Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce will contest the women’s 100m heats on Friday.
TOKYO: Jamaican sprint queen Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce will make her grand entrance at the Tokyo Olympics as coronavirus concerns loom over the start of the athletics programme on Friday.
The reigning 100m champion will launch her bid to become the first woman to win an individual Olympic athletics event three times when she headlines competition at Tokyo’s Olympic Stadium.
A new champion will be crowned in the men’s 10,000m, after Britain’s 2012 and 2016 winner Mo Farah failed to qualify, and US great Allyson Felix will figure in the heats of the inaugural 4x400m mixed relay.
Competition gets under way in the fan-free, 68,000-capacity stadium a day after a Covid-19 scare forced Australia’s athletics team into temporary…
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