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Kishane Thompson's coach Stephen Francis has explained what his management is doing differently to ensure the 22-year-old is not injured before the Olympic Games.
Kishane Thompson’s coach, Stephen Francis has explained how his team is working cautiously to avoid any injuries on the sprinter ahead of the Olympic Games.
Thompson has been vulnerable to injuries in the past few seasons and this season, his team is taking a different approach in training him to ensure he is ready for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
Injuries have locked him out of major championships including the World Championships in Budapest, Hungary in 2023 but he managed to bounce back at the Prefontaine Classic, the Diamond League Meeting final.
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21:00 - 14.07.2024
Kishane Thompson: 5 things you need to know about Jamaica's 100m gold hopeful at Paris 2024
Jamaican sprinter Kishane Thompson has emerged as a leading contender for the Paris 2024 Olympics with record-breaking speed and elite coaching.
Thompson has been off to a great start this season, winning the women’s 100m at the Jamaican Olympic trials. He won the preliminaries in 9.82 before winning the semifinal in 9.84. He then struck with a world leading time of 9.77 to win the final of the race.
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He is just fresh from competing against a strong cast at the Gyulai István Memorial, a Hungarian Athletics Grand Prix where he won the race ahead of Letsile Tebogo and Akani Simbine.
“Everybody we have had at MVP has managed to last a long time because we just don’t hope to avoid injuries, we take steps to ensure that if he gets injured we can correct the situation and we run our training in such a manner that the athlete is the boss,” Francis told Nationwide90 FM.
“I always tell them that any sign of stress, they should speak up. Our system requires us to be super cautious and remember that this year is not the end of the world and in future, we expect the athlete to have a great career,” he added.
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21:06 - 13.07.2024
Will Julien Alfred break the American & Jamaican dominance in women's 100m & 200m at Paris Olympics?
Julien Alfred, the latest sprint sensation will be out to stop Jamaican and American dominance at the Paris Olympic Games.
The veteran tactician added that in training, Thompson was very cautious and his coach did not expect him to unleash such a beastly run at the Jamaican Olympic trials.
However, he noted that Thompson has been injury free, a plus for him as he heads to the Olympics where the main focus will be to win a medal.
“In training her has been cautious and I’ve had to coax him to take a risk and go a little bit faster but based on what he was doing in training I knew that he was better than last year and last year he ran a 9.85 so I was feeling like he would go 9.80,” he said.
“The time he ran and the way he ran it is not surprising because he is capable of it. Based on what I saw him do in the final, he is capable. Right now, for his future and what he needs to do is win an Olympic medal.”
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