Jamaican hat-trick and show in the women’s 100m final. Elaine Thompson-Herah won with a fantastic time of 10 “61, record of the Games, perhaps also the result of the super shoes on her feet, in front of compatriots Fraser-Pryce and Jackson: for the others there was nothing to do, and for Jamaica it is a historic three of a kind, even more so for having arrived in the queen race of the Olympics. So Thompson, a 29-year-old from Kingston with a passion for cooking and a student of coach Stephen Francis on the track, repeated the gold she won in Rio, where moreover it had been slower (10 “71).
At the Doha 2019 World Championships she had disappointed by finishing off the podium, but today she showed that she is still the fastest. Shelly-Ann Fraser Pryce was disappointed, second but convinced she can win despite the 34 years. But she consoles herself with a fact that already makes her go down in history: with the silver in Tokyo she is at the fourth medals out of 100 in as many editions of the Olympics: gold in Beijing and London, bronze in Rio where she was able to get on the podium despite the problems with the toes (which is certainly not a small thing for a sprinter), and now silver in Tokyo. It will be very difficult for anyone to do better than her, “in fact if I think about it it’s not bad at all”, she let slip after the race, when the disappointment for the lack of success was already more nuanced.