Olympic Gold Medalist Dominates the 100m at Her Kid’s Sports Day Event
If you’re one of those people who watches the Olympics and wishes they’d put a normal person in the competition so we can see how fast the athletes really are, this one’s for you.
Eight-time Olympic gold medalist and a 10-time world champion sprinter Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce recently announced her comeback and for her first 100m race, she competed against the other parents at her son’s sports day event. And completely demolished them.
I love how she goes flat-out…no Usain Bolt showboating or looking around near the finish line. All business. (via @rebeccablood.bsky.social)
Update: She did it back in 2023 too.
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A stark reminder, that yeah… weekend warriors are awesome, but not professionals.
She was blistering
She has one of the best smiles in all of sport
If you ever have the chance to go watch world-class sprinters up close in person....DO IT!
Way back in the Ben Johnson / Mazda Track Club era, I got to watch them at an indoor track meet in Saskatoon (go figure), and seeing the women basically just doing 40m warm-up sprints....and feeling the air-wake as they went by....I had no idea humans could move that quickly.
The men were slightly more impressive, but only marginally so in my memory; the women were a LOT closer to the men than the "fastest guy your class" would be to the women.
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