SHELLY-ANN FRASER-PRYCE SECOND FASTEST IN WOMEN’S 100M HEATS

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce kicked off her fifth and final Olympics with the second fastest time of the heats to breeze into the women’s 100m semi-finals at Paris 2024.

The Jamaican sprint legend has said Paris will be her Olympic swansong, with the 37-year-old looking to bow out in style.

Fraser-Pryce has remarkably made the 100m podium at the past four Olympics, winning Beijing 2008 and London 2012, and there were no surprises on Friday at the Stade de France as the 10-time world champion posted an impressive 10.92, just 0.05 seconds behind the heats’ overall pace-setter Marie-Josée Ta Lou-Smith.

The pair will go again in the semi-finals on Saturday at 19:50 local time, with the women’s 100m final then taking place at 21:20, where Fraser-Pryce will be hoping to draw on all her experience to upset the reigning world champion Sha’Carri Richardson, who clocked 10.94 in her heat