Eight-time Olympic medalist Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce will conclude her illustrious sprinting career at the 2024 Games in Paris, as she plans to retire from the sport that propelled her to stardom in 2008.
The 37-year-old expressed her continued passion for racing in an interview with Essence.com and said her decision to step away was fueled by the desire to spend more time with her 6-year-old son, Zyon, and her husband, Jason.
“My son needs me,” Fraser-Pryce said. “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.”
Fraser-Pryce burst onto the international sprinting scene as a 21-year-old when she became the first Caribbean woman to win gold in an Olympic 100-meter final, clocking a winning time of 10.78 seconds. Standing atop the podium in Beijing, she was joined by compatriots Sherone Simpson and Kerron Stewart, who tied for silver. The Jamaican sprinters were the first trio to sweep the medals of a women’s 100-meter race in any Olympics or world championships.
She defended her 100m title at the 2012 Olympics with a winning time of…
