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Athletics: Thompson-Herah, reigning Olympic 100m champion, finally finds a coach

Jamaican sprinter Elaine Thompson-Herah, double reigning Olympic 100m champion, joins the group of Reynaldo Walcott, coach of her rival Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, her agent announced Monday eight months before the Paris Olympic Games.

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Athletics: Thompson-Herah, reigning Olympic 100m champion, finally finds a coach

Jamaican sprinter Elaine Thompson-Herah, double reigning Olympic 100m champion, joins the group of Reynaldo Walcott, coach of her rival Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, her agent announced Monday eight months before the Paris Olympic Games.

Five-time Olympic champion (100-200 m in Rio in 2016, 100-200-4x100 m in Tokyo in 2021), Thompson-Herah separated from her temporary coach last week, with whom she was unable to get along. agreement on the terms of a contract.

“Ms. Thompson-Herah will be guided by coach Reynaldo Walcott, from the Elite Performance Track Club,” the Andi Sports Management agency which deals with the sprinter wrote on Instagram on Monday.

Since 2020, Reynaldo Walcott has been training Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (36), a two-time Olympic champion (2008 and 2012) and five-time world champion in the 100m, a compatriot but also a rival of Thompson-Herah. The two Jamaican sprint stars had already rubbed shoulders several years ago at the MVP Track Club in Kingston.

Thompson-Herah, second fastest woman in the history of the straight (10.54 in Eugene in 2021), is coming out of a difficult season at 31 where, hampered by physical problems, she failed to qualify as an individual for the World Championships in Budapest, which in August crowned the American Sha'Carri Richardson (10.65) in the 100m.

“Out of the greatest difficulties come miracles,” Thompson-Herah wrote on her social media Monday, a text accompanied by “

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