The former NCAA champion from tiny St. Lucia wins the Caribbean’s fifth straight Olympic women’s 100 final, as Richardson takes silver and fellow American Melissa Jefferson gets bronze
Julien Alfred of Saint Lucia reacts as she wins the women’s 100-meter final as the United States’ Sha’Carri Richardson, left, and Melissa Jefferson, right, finish second and third, respectively, at the Olympic Games on Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024, at Stade de France in Saint-Denis, France. PARIS — Always an early riser on race day, St. Lucia sprinter Julien Alfred woke up at 5 a.m.
American Ryan Crouser, battling an elbow injury that only days ago left him questionable to even compete in Paris, became the first man to win the event at three straight Olympics, clinching the three-peat with a 75-1¾ third-round throw. “People are always asking me where is St. Lucia?” Alfred said. “Now being Olympic champion, a lot of people are going to be looking for St. Lucia.”
“I moved to Jamaica because I believed I needed a new environment,” she said. “Also great sprinting culture, I wanted to be a part of that.” In March, she won the World Indoor Championships 60-meter title. Even so, Richardson arrived in Paris as the favorite to win gold medal, especially since Jamaica’s Shericka Jackson, the 2022 World Championships 100 and 200 champion who second to Richardson in the 100 at last year’s Worlds, withdrew from the 100 earlier in the week to focus on the 200. Thompson-Herah didn’t make it to Paris after suffering an Achilles injury in June.
“Usain Bolt won so many medals,” she said of the Jamaican superstar. “I went back this morning and watched his races. I’m not going to lie, it was all Usain Bolt’s races this morning.”
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