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Retired American sprinter Justin Gatlin has opened up on his wish to see Shelly-Anne Fraser-Pryce continue following her retirement announcement.
After announcing her retirement from competitive athletics after the Olympic Games in Paris, France, multiple World champion Shelly-Anne Fraser-Pryce has received a lot of praise globally with the latest coming from Olympic and World Champion Justin Gatlin and co-host Rodney Green on their Ready Set Go Podcast.
The Jamaican track star blessed the track with her prowess in running and attracted fans from across the globe and with her retirement, many hearts will be broken. However, she has also left a legacy and rewritten history in so many ways.
At the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2018, she became the first Jamaican woman to win Olympic 100m gold. Her follow-up victory in 2012 made her only the third woman to win back-to-back Olympic titles.
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Owing to her influence on and off the track, Gatlin, an ex-drug cheat lauded the Jamaican superstar emphasizing her commitment to inspiring young female athletes.
“Man, Shelly-Ann has been such an inspiration to the sport for so long. Watching her make her first Olympic team in 2008 and her dominance for so many years into the sport and watching her grow.
“She was out there in the world and watching her mature into the powerful, successful woman she is now, hat’s off to her. She deserves everything,” he said.
The American expressed his wish to have the two-time Olympic champion win many more races thanks to her welcoming aura.
“We wish she could run many, many more years because she is the kind of person that rises to the occasion.
“Watching her duke it out with Elaine (Thompson-Herah) throughout the years they’d be seeing who would get to 10-7 first and then who would get to 10-6, and it made for pure entertainment because they both rose to the occasion,” he added.
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