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Jamaica’s Shericka Jackson to skip women’s 100m race at Paris Olympics 2024

The Jamaican sprinter believes she will run a better 200m race, where she is the world champion, at the Paris Olympics.

Shericka Jackson of Jamaica will not run in the 100 metres when Olympic track events start, saying that the injury she suffered at a tune-up race earlier this month played a part in the decision.

Jackson said on Wednesday she will still run in her better race, the 200 metres, where she is the only woman other than the world-record holder, the late Florence Griffith Joyner, to finish in under 21.5 seconds.

The Olympic track meet starts on Friday, highlighted by the opening round for the women’s 100, where Jackson had been listed as the second favourite behind world champion Sha’Carri Richardson.

Jackson’s announcement does come in the wake of her pulling up with an apparent injury late in a race in Hungary three weeks ago.