These are exciting times in the athletics world as track and field stars are all giving their best efforts to qualify for the World Championships. Snippets of various athletes winning their respective races are flooding the internet, and fans are getting all the entertainment. Most recently, Jamaican athletes competed at the National Stadium, Kingston for their National Championships. In one of the recent updates, Shelly-Ann-Fraser-Pryce won the 200m heats event, putting up a spectacular display of running. This comes a day or two after another track starlet Sha’Carri Richardson won her race.

Sha’Carri Richardson too qualified for the World Championships in style a few days ago. She won the 100m race in Oregon at the USATF, clocking in at 10.82 seconds. The championships are heating up.

A thumping start for Shelly-Ann-Fraser-Pryce

A tweet by Oluwadare went, “Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce opens up her season at the Jamaican Championships, winning her 200m heat in 22.36s!” A half-a-minute clip attached alongside showed the exact moments from the race where Fraser-Pryce dominated the track from the moment the gun fired. Natasha Morrison also made a good start alongside Pryce, but she was no match for her.

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“Fraser-Pryce now catching up to them on the upside, and Fraser-Pryce has now gone by them, and Fraser-Pryce is swift off the curb here…” said the commentator at every moment of the 200m event, as Fraser-Pryce was leaping forward, leaving all her competitors behind.

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This is the season opener for Fraser-Pryce and what a manner to do it. She also had a magnificent year in 2022, for which she even won the Laureus Sports Award for Best Female Athlete this year. On the other side of the ocean in Oregon, Sha’Carri Richardson too is proving to be a real threat later this year.

It might be Sha’Carri Richardson vs Shelly-Ann-Fraser-Pryce

Sha’Carri Richardson won the 100m race and stamped her place in the World Championships, but that’s not all. The 23-year-old sprinting sensation from Dallas, who is having the time of her life this year on the track, proved yet again that she is one to look out for in every event. She finished her 200m heats in 21.21 seconds, the fastest of all heats for her. Richardson also showed her prowess in the 200 meters, although she missed out on the 100 meters, during the Kip Keino Classic in Nairobi, Kenya, earlier this year. She won the event in a record time of 22.07 seconds.

Although, some might say there was a slight caveat in that championships. Shelly-Ann-Fraser-Pryce didn’t participate. She withdrew from the Kip Keino Classic citing injury reasons, but this time she looks in blazing form. It will be one heck of a showdown at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary next month. It might lead to an even bigger rivalry in the Paris Olympics next year.

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