Three-time Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce has revealed she plans to retire after the Paris Games this summer.
The 37-year-old Jamaican won the 100 metres title in both 2008 and 2012, and collected a third Olympic gold as part of the Jamaican relay team at Tokyo 2020 Games.
Her 2020 title as well as three of her 10 world titles, came after the birth of her son in 2017, and in an interview with Essence.com said her family was the key to her decision.
“There’s not a day I’m getting up to go practise and I’m like, ‘I’m over this’,” she said. “My son needs me. My husband and I have been together since before I won in 2008. He has sacrificed for me.
“We’re a partnership, a team. And it’s because of that support that I’m able to do the things that I have been doing for all these years. And I think I now owe it to them to do something else.”
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Fraser-Pryce made history when she became the oldest woman to the win the 100 metres world title at the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha aged 32 before reclaiming the crown in Eugene three years later at the age of 35.
