Jamaica’s Elaine Thompson-Herah Wins Olympic 100-Meter Race

Elaine Thompson-Herah’s legacy because the quickest girl on the earth continues. On July 31, the Jamaican athlete earned her third gold medal and broke Florence Griffith Joyner’s (Flo-Jo’s) 33-year-old Olympic document within the ladies’s 100-meter race. Thompson-Herah is 29 years outdated herself, thus beating a document older than she’s been alive. With a ending time of 10.61 seconds, Thompson-Herah made historical past.

Joyner’s 1988 document of 10.61 seconds was set in Seoul. Her 100-meter world document of 10.49 seconds nonetheless stands. Thompson-Herah believes she will dash previous that point as effectively, telling reporters after her race, “something is feasible.” The observe star’s win is much more spectacular given an Achilles harm that she thought would maintain her out of the Tokyo Video games lower than two months in the past. Nevertheless, her persistence drove her previous the end line, and she or he plans to maintain pushing herself. “I’ve extra years. I am simply 29; I am not 30, I am not 40. I am nonetheless working,” she stated, in line with CNN. See pictures of Thompson-Herah’s well-deserved celebratory response to her gold medal second, forward.