Elaine Thompson-Herah: 5-time Olympic champion splits with coach


Jamaican sprinter Elaine Thompson-Herah
Elaine Thompson-Herah will purpose to win third successive Olympic golds over 100m and 200m in Paris

5-time Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah has cut up along with her coach eight months earlier than she is going to try and defend her dash titles at Paris 2024.

In line with her administration workforce, the 31-year-old parted with Shanikie Osbourne due to the “extraordinarily extreme” phrases sought by the coach.

The Jamaican received 100m, 200m and 4x100m gold at Tokyo 2020 after successful 100m and 200m gold at Rio 2016.

She is the second-fastest girl in historical past over 100m.

“Collectively, we had no alternative however to hunt the providers of one other coach,” Thompson-Herah’s administration workforce stated in an announcement.

“With the 2024 Summer season Olympics in Paris quick approaching, Thompson-Herah is absolutely centered on her preparations for the season and the defence of her Olympic titles.”

Whereas Thompson-Herah has dominated girls’s sprinting on the earlier two Olympic Video games, she didn’t qualify for this 12 months’s World Championships in Budapest following an injury-hampered season.

American Florence Griffith-Joyner, who clocked 10.49 seconds in 1988, is the one girl to have run sooner than Thompson-Herah’s 100m private better of 10.54 secs.

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