TOKYO: Jamaica's Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce will be looking to make history on Saturday as the first woman to win three Olympic 100m gold medals and cement her place as one of the transcendent talents in the sport.
"I never expected I would run 10.6," she said after the June race."Because 10.6 has been a dream, a goal, I've been working so hard, being so patient to see it finally unfold. I'm so ecstatic." She ran the second-fastest time this year - 10.71 seconds - on her way to defeating Fraser-Pryce in Hungary three weeks ago, a sign that the 29-year-old may not be ready to relinquish her Olympic title just yet.
The United States' chances of a first legal gold since Gail Devers triumphed in 1996 - Marion Jones was stripped of the 2000 title for doping offences - were massively reduced after national trials winner Sha'Carri Richardson was ruled out after testing positive for cannabis.
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