EUGENE, Ore. : Five-times Olympic gold medallist Elaine Thompson-Herah said on Friday she will not be satisfied until she can add an elusive individual World Championship title to her trophy case.She hopes to do just that when she competes in the women’s 100 metres in Eugene, Oregon starting on Saturday
EUGENE, Ore. : Five-times Olympic gold medallist Elaine Thompson-Herah said on Friday she will not be satisfied until she can add an elusive individual World Championship title to her trophy case.
“I feel amazing. The only title I don’t have is a world championship," she told reporters on Friday, a day after Puma signed her to its roster of top-flight athletes."So the focus is to claim a gold, of course.”The venue is a familiar and fast one for Thompson-Herah. She ran her personal best at Hayward Field last year, completing the 100m in 10.54 seconds - second only to Florence Griffith-Joyner's 10.49 world record.
“Anything is possible, and for me it’s all about believing and putting in the work and the work has to go in to get that result. And for me, I think it can be broken, once you have that good weather, that competition, anything is possible,” she said. Despite last year’s time at Hayward being Thompson-Herah's best, the Jamaican said she felt slow in that race, which she believes might be a good thing.
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