Will Shelly-Ann be an Olympic Legend?

[Muadib]

This is serious dicussion.. yappers exit stage left.. guh help Don1 research Bolt medal history..

[Muadib]

Opinion noted.. I will check with the experts and advise you on reality.. and no I will not be going to the stands at Boys and Girls Champs in search for the guidance..

[Gamma]

not from Bolt ...

[Assasin]

So if she don't win in Rio, she will not be a legend????

[Mosiah]

Ahem! How much Champs medal yuh have again?

[Karl]

All Hail Queen Shelly-ann

ALL HAIL QUEEN SHELLY-ANN

Shelly Ann Fraser-Pryce on Monday established herself as Jamaica’s greatest ever female 100-metre sprinter and one of the greatest of all time when she destroyed a quality field in the women’s sprint finals at the 14th IAAF World Athletic Championships in Moscow. In doing so she became the first and only woman to win two Olympic and two World titles.

What is also telling is that had it not been for injury, she could have accomplished this feat two years ago in Daegu, South Korea. Still only 26 (she turns 27 in December) the Pocket Rocket can claim an unprecedented third world title in Beijing in 2015, well before her 28th birthday when she will still be at the peak of her powers.

What makes SAFP’s performance so special was the margin of victory over what was a faster field than the one she faced in London in 2012. Every woman in the field had gone below 11-seconds and more than once this year. From Carmelita Jeter, who ran well for bronze, considering she was coming off a bad thigh injury she picked up in Shanghai in May to newcomer Octavious Freeman who had a season best of 10.87 at the USA trials in June, this was a field of quality female sprinters. It didn’t seem to matter to the affable Jamaican sprint queen who obliterated her opponents by an astonishing 0.22 seconds, the largest margin of victory ever at a World Championships and perhaps the most impressive since Florence Griffith Joyner decimated the field by 0.29 seconds at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea.

The expected challenge from Jeter and Blessing Okagbare, who finished out of the medals, did not materialize for several reasons; injury, as was the case with Jeter and with Okagbare, tired legs. The latter, on the evening before, was engaged in a intense battle for the long jump title with American Britney Reese. The Nigerian, who had run back-to-back personal bests in London just two weeks previously (10.86 and 10.79), was expected to mount a serious challenge to SAFP but only on the condition that she sacrificed the long jump which was being held in between the first round of the 100-m heats and the semis and final. Six runs and jumps for the woman who finished second with leaps of 6.99m and 6.96m, among her best, left the 23-year-old Nigerian with leaden legs for the finals and it cost her dearly as she finished sixth.

The other African in the race, Murielle Ahoure created the history that Okagbare was expected to make, by becoming the first African woman to medal in a sprint at the World Championships. Trained by Alan Powell, Ahoure, the daughter of an Ivorian army general, has been living and training in the USA and had ambitions of doing well at the championships this year after falling short of expectations in London last year.

None of that matters now as the moment of these championships so far has been the dominance of the smallest lady in the field over her rivals and it bodes well for her going into the 200m where she goes for a second gold medal against another tough field that will include three-time world champion Alyson Felix, Ahoure, Okagbare, and rising star Kimberlyn Duncan of the United States. But if she applies herself like she did in the 100m, surely the Pocket Rocket could blast her way to an unprecedented sprint double, something no other Jamaican woman has managed to accomplish.

http://gleanerblogs.com/sports/?p=2078

Also - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelly-Ann_Fraser-Pryce

[Don1]

You are entitled to that opinion

[Don1]

Sarry mi nuh tek nuh guy who falla Horse's Ass serious. Dem deh name joka

[Don1]

That is possible. Unnu tink legend juss come suh cause unnu love har?? LOL

[Don1]

This demonstrates your limitations.

When she wins in Rio and becomes an icon of track she will move beyond hawking phone cards and sausages..... that is for local legends

[Muadib]

mi know when you add up di numbah a Champs medals innah Beast Management team.. yuh get zero !

Den when yuh look pon Beast bank statement yuh find nuffa zero.. and yet it nuh empty !

Riggle mi dis ?

[Muadib]

I tek di man dem dat create di Athlete dat yuh ah worship very serious.. call dem what you may..

[Muadib]

And this demonstrates your ignorance on marketing in the World of Track and Field.

Mi hear seh dem rank VC above Ottey... what is VC earnings ? Wheh yuh seh she ah nuh Icon doh..

lol ! woiee !

Poor Yuh...

Shelly Baby.. run bruk di record, kallec yuh medals and save yuh money yah sah.. mi ongly hope seh she nuh have eediat round har a full up har head wid certain Icon nonsense..

Dis Bolt ting eff up unnuh heads in more ways dan one..

Ah bwoy..

[Muadib]

Can you send me the Legend clause in the Shoe kontrac dem ?

lol ! woiee !

[Assasin]

thank you so it is possible she is a legend right now then?

If Shelly don't run again, when the book is written she will be a legend.