Great Jamaicans start to shift their sport out of Flo-Jo’s shadow

In breaking Florence Griffith-Joyner’s Olympic record, Elaine Thompson-Herah has begun the process of removing a long-standing millstone around women’s sprinting

Minutes before the start of the women’s 100m final, the most keenly anticipated race at these Games, the lights fell and that familiar hush settled over the stadium. A helicopter buzzed overh

ead, a laser show played on the home straight, but everything else was still. The atmosphere felt charged with expectation.

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