Olympic Games sprint double champion Elaine Thompson-Herah has pulled out of another 100m showdown, this time Friday’s (28 May) Doha Diamond League meeting.
Last week, organizers announced Thompson-Herah, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Sha’Carri Richardson, and Marie-Josee Ta Lou will face-off in the women’s 100m.
However, when the entry list came out on Monday (24 May), Thompson-Herah’s name was missing. Thompson-Herah also withdrew days before last Sunday’s (23 May) clash in Gateshead. She would have faced Richardson, Dina Asher-Smith and Fraser-Pryce.
Thompson-Herah, who won the Rio 2016 100m and 200m titles, is the second-fastest woman in the world this year with 10.78 seconds.
Fraser-Pryce, the Doha 2019 world champion, ran the 100m for the first time in Gateshead, where she finished fourth in 11.51.
Richardson lost the clash in Gateshead to Great Britain’s Asher-Smith, 11.33 to 11.44 in the pouring rain. She has already switched her focus to Doha.
“I am definitely looking forward to some sunshine next week in Doha,” Richardson said.
Richardson, who was losing for the first time since the USA Trials in 2019, has dominated the year with 10.72, 10.74 and 10.77.
Richardson’s 10.72 makes her the 6th best all-time world performer and No. 4 on the all-time U.S. performer list. Only world record holder Florence Griffith-Joyner, Carmelita Jeter and Marion Jones have ever run faster as Americans.
Jamaicans Fraser-Pryce and Thompson Herah, both with 10.70, are the only two non-American to run fastest than 10.72.
See the 100m Women ENTRY LIST BELOW:
SB PB
AHOURÉ, Murielle 11.44 10.78
CUNLIFFE, Hannah 11.07 10.99
DEL PONTE, Ajla 11.81 11.08
FRASER-PRYCE, Shelly-Ann 11.51 10.70
OKAGBARE, Blessing 10.97 10.79
OLIVER, Javianne 10.97 10.97
RICHARDSON, Sha’Carri 10.72 10.72
TA LOU, Marie-Josée 11.48 10.85
Don’t see Shari listed among entrants for Doha tho
All the very best to all the sprinters and Athletes.
The waggonists dem love to make stupid comments and show off dem bad mind and dutty heart. Did they not see what happen to Wade Van Niekerk at the Boston meet this past weekend? He tried to run too fast with an injury that is not properly healed and pulled up. A diss unu wan happen to ET?.
Some a unu Jamaicans are a set of vipers! When she(Elaine) was winning championships you all were basking in the glory but now tht she’s having setbacks unu a gi har basket a water fi carry…Set a disloyal reprobates unu💅🏾
Renée Joeii I agree waggonist and some badmind win or lose Jamaica always Can’t wait to beat them bad in the Olympics
Afraid of the princess grazer pryce
Elaine ran 10.78 this season……she is the second fastest this season so y would people be so negative?
Shan Nece how am I being negative?wateva the reason is the kitchen still hot
Anna-kay Grandison Best move her coach ever made. What did that race really prove. Would have been a waste of her time. Risking injury for what or to prove what. Elaine Thompson’s personal best in the 100m and 200m already put her in the top 5 women who ever ran those times. So what would she have to lose
Anna-kay Grandison Leave it alone. A injury free Elaine can beat all of them in the 100m and 200m. Just going by her personal best
Cnt manage the heat so she come out da kitchen
Anna-kay Grandison i know u aint a Jamaican. Don’t talk things u don’t know.
I am a Jamaican and if there wasn’t Shelly and Richardson she wouldn’t pull out. Look at last season there were no competition she run every race
Trevon Salmon Does Elaine look like she is scared of Shelly or Richardson. A injury free Elaine can beat all of them. You seem to forget that she beat Shelly in the RIO Olympics
Wow always Jamaican tearing down one another….Elaine you kno the reason get well soon
Since when does that matter. History would show that in the past certain athletes stayed away from one another at certain meets until they were either ready to run or if the price was right😜especially before big games such as the Olympics or World Champs
Shelley Ann Fraser Pryse the great queen of the track in the whole world congratulations 🎉🎈 to you dear
Just speculation…but protecting a flare up of an injury is usually the most common reason.
Thompson already knows she has the speed from her 10.78. No need to risk injury in a head to head with Richardson at this time of the year. Will also be more money to be had in a match up later in the season
Jerry Mcknight a muss you she scared a💅🏾
why you people always try to downplay other people’s opinion, they asked a question, if the had known what had happen, the question wouldn’t be out there, so everybody is entitled to their own opinion, what if i am correct ?, and she is not just ready to meet this kind of field so quickly, this field was like the olympic finals already, and its just a matter of opinions, we all are entitled to.
Jerry Mcknight Scared? ?
Of what. It was the best move her coach ever made. No… they should be scared of Elaine. Injury free Elaine can beat all of them. Just going by her personal best in the 100m and 200m
Colleen Edwards Based on the injury she has, she will not be injury free and so it has to be carefully managed.
Jerry Mcknight I believe she would have won scared or not scared.
Giving her one and only self time to heal,den she agoh weeell an come aghen come light up the 🔥🔥🔥 the track … Elaine and Shelly side by side=bonfyah…. scary scorching 🇯🇲🇯🇲
Keep your secret weapon to your self time is no right
The worst injuries to get rid of are the ones in your head. When an injury accure to a person in spots on any part of the body , the comeback is more difficult for some . The brain will have to heal first
She has an injury that has to be carefully managed. It is an injury where there is no permanent solution and she wants to be at her very best at the Olympics. I do not know what a double Olympic champion has to be scared about. She is the current Olympic double sprint champion with nothing to prove. Afraid of who?
Well said! It is all about managing the injury, and Franno naw mek nuh mistake with him athletes dem
Injuries are always worse in the face of tough competition it seems!!! Disclosure: My opinion means nothing.
Bravo to the great Jamaican team much respect have no doubt at you guys
Nursing the injury or protecting it. She probably aggravated it in that last fast race she did
Is Elaine pregnant?
Wait didn’t Dina beat Richardson? So why is Dina’s picture not up there? Is she not going to Doha?
In that stiff breeze Nd rain it was a good victory but at the games the weather will b very sunny nd the track I hear is super quick I think if shacarri can qualify herself Elaine and Shelley will threaten to go under 10.7 as for Dina I dnt know that she’s got a 10.75 in her Nd u will need to go under 10.8 to medal seemingly
My money is on Shelley fraser pryce although all 3 are WGOATS.
I would like to see all the best run against eachother in every single race – just for my own excitement. I believe both SAFP and DAS have said that this, too, is what they would prefer.
Honestly though I’m not sure why ppl mention Dina for the 100 coz she will need to go a lot faster if she’s to challenge at the games unless of course the weather changes now the 200 that’s a different story
Its gonna be hard for Thompson to defend her two double sprints medals
Is Elaine nursing an injury or is she and coach playing it safe?
Viola James She has a long term Achilles tendon problem.
Hannu Savolainen I know about that problem.
Viola James So why did you ask? 😁😁
Hannu Savolainen were you able to answer my second half of the problem?
Viola James She is playing it safe but of course the chronic injury has affected her training very severely.
Hannu Savolainen Okay thank you so much. Have a great day Hannu 💜💜💜🇯🇲
Viola James You too Viola!!
Hannu Savolainen Blessings 🙏🏼🙏🏼
Hannu Savolainen
Viola James I noticed Elaine mostly chicken out
Olympic top 3 in the making.God BLESS all 3 of you always great to watch your 3 run.thank
I’ll just remind you’ll of the meets going up to the show down for the last Olympics. God work in mysterious ways. Nothing will ever happen before time. Just saying!!
Something is happening. Two meets missed. What Frano up to?🤔
Jerome Brown Absolutely not, just fun events to see who’s who. The Olympics are TWO months away!
Hannu Savolainen exactly
Hannu Savolainen Sounds like a reoccurring injury. Saving for the Olympics.
Jerome Brown Yes, Thompson has really been suffering from it since 2017. It is a pity because she is immensely talented and even 10.5-10.6 would have been possible for her at her best.
I dnt think so no one can get close to flo jos time if u can run 10.7 to 10.8 in the current times I’d say that’s almost sets you apart from the rest I like shacarri but her lack of experience I just feel will count agnst her also American circuits r considerably quicker than the rest of the world
Times I should say
Pregnant maybe? Not a bad idea since the Olympics is still up in the air.
Yvonne Rose-Green Or coach Francis is protecting his asset
What’s happening,any injuries perhaps or what?
Gerhardus Pieterse probably scared.
Cece Smith scared of who???
Scared of what? Elaine has lost before. Cece you sound stupid
Cece Smith scared of who??? We win some and we lose some,
Gerhardus Pieterse she is injured that’s why she pulled out of Gateshead.
She wants to surprise the world at the Olympics
No one wants to get injured so close to the games so if there’s even a slight issue they’d rather miss a golden league meet than the games