Michael Johnson column: 'Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce
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Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is amazing. The 100m is arguably the most difficult event to repeat as champion, and she's done it five times.
Her longevity is extremely impressive, having won her first 100m world title in 2009, and I think it's often underrated. She's lived in the shadow of Usain Bolt.
They both won their first Olympic titles in the same year, 2008. He's long since retired and she's still going, she's had a child, come back, and run even faster.
It's a testament to her greatness - her longevity and consistency is amazing in an event that is so difficult.
The one thing she is missing from her resume is the world record. If she was able to break the world record, then you could make the case that she's had an even greater career than Bolt.
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They weren't consistent, but all of those opinions were that it was going to be a Jamaican - Shelly-Ann, Shericka Jackson, or Elaine Thompson-Herah.
That's what you want, you want that sort of race where everyone's got a different opinion of who is going to win because that means it is so competitive. You remember the Bolt days when everyone knew he was going to win, it was just a matter of whether he was going to break a record or not.
That's great, but what track and field is really all about at the end of the day is the competitiveness.
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The other narrative was whether or not someone would be able to spoil the party, someone like Great Britain's Dina Asher-Smith or Marie-Josee Ta Lou of Ivory Coast, but as it went through the rounds, it looked increasingly less likely that it was going to happen.
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Asher-Smith, who finished fourth behind the three Jamaicans, has called this the golden age of women's sprinting, and I absolutely agree with that.
You could say that Fraser-Pryce and Thompson-Herah are the greatest two female sprinters of all time, they both have repeated as Olympic champions.
Then you've got Jackson coming in who has run 10.77 this year, and the Americans who, coming into this, were running really fast times as well. They weren't able to repeat those times at this championship, but it is an incredible time in women's sprinting.
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