Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce has discussed the pressure to break Flo-Jo’s 100m world record, insisting that while it’s a goal, it doesn’t consume her focus.
Jamaican sprint queen Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce has opened up about the possibility of attacking the late Florence Griffith-Joyner’s 100m world record.
The world record stands at 10.49 seconds and Shelly-Ann believes she has the ability and talent to go for it, but only when it feels right for her.
The late Flo-Jo set the world record at the 1988 US Olympic trials and the only sprint queen to get close to the record is Elaine Thompson-Herah with her 10.54 seconds.
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Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce comes in third with her personal best time of 10.60 seconds. The 10-time world champion revealed that people have been pressuring her to go for the record but she chooses to hear what they say selectively and use that as motivation to keep going.
Shelly-Ann admitted that it has been something at the back of her mind and she does not let world record talks get into her head since that will distract her from the main goal which is solely winning.
Growing up, she always wanted to have a great progression in her times and from her consistency, Shelly-Ann believes anything is possible as long as the record is concerned.
“You know, you hear the conversation because you can’t ignore it but you have to know what to feed on. For me, 10.6 has always been the goal for me when I was young, that was always my big dream,” Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce said in an interview with Black Enterprise.
“Then I was able to hit 10.6 and I was like based on all the 10.6 that I had run and how I felt and what I had done in training, I think 10.5 is possible and if I think 10.5 is possible, then it means that I can 10.4.”
“I always work with that in my mind, that I can’t limit the goals that I have for myself and I can’t limit myself because if I believe in something, then I have to work towards it but it doesn’t consume me. I don’t go to practice solely thinking about it. This goes back to the moment I step on the line because I’ve already run the race a thousand times.”
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In recent years, Shelly-Ann has struggled to show up in her full form, failing to defend her world title at the 2023 World Championships in Budapest, Hungary and unexpectedly withdrawing from the Paris Olympic Games after the first round.
She reported that Paris would be her final Olympics but she is not retiring from the sport anytime soon and in fact, she hopes to bounce back stronger this season.
Shelly-Ann has shared a series of videos in the gym and even if she plans for 2025 to be her final year as a professional athlete, the three-time Olympic champion will exit with a bang.
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