BERLIN, Feb. 9 (dpa/EP) –
Jamaican sprinter Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, winner of eight Olympic medals, including three gold, plans to retire after the Paris 2024 Olympic Games so she can dedicate more time to her family.
“There isn't a day I get up to go to training and say, 'I'm over this.' My son needs me, my husband (Jason Pryce) and I have been together since before he won in 2008 and he's sacrificed for me.” me. We are a couple, a team. And it is thanks to that support that I am able to do the things that I have been doing for all these years. And I think that now I owe it to them to do something more,” said Fraser-Pryce in an interview in the February issue of 'Essence' magazine.
Fraser-Pryce, 37, won her first Olympic gold at the 2008 Beijing Games, becoming the first Caribbean woman to do so in the 100 metres. Four years later, in London 2012, she was the third woman in history to defend an Olympic hectometer title and a third gold medal came in Tokyo 2020 in the 4×100 meter relay, successes to which we must add four other Olympic silver medals and a bronze, in addition to ten world gold medals.
If selected by her national Olympic committee for the Paris Games, Fraser-Pryce will participate in her fifth Summer Olympics.
Currently, Fraser-Pryce is focused on her training for Paris, which she says is about “pushing the limits” and “showing people that you stop when you decide to.” “I want to end it on my own terms,” she warned.