UPDATE: Shericka Jackson out of 100m at Paris Olympics
World 200-metre champion Shericka Jackson will not line up in the women’s 100m at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games when that event gets under way on Friday.
As a result, she will not contest the sprint double.
Jamaica’s athletics assistant team manager Ian Forbes confirmed to Loop News today that she has been replaced in the 100 metres by Shashalee Forbes.
Jackson said at a press conference in Paris a short while ago that she will only be competing in the women’s 200m metres.
Earlier today, MVP Track Club Head Coach Stephen Francis directed the media to Team Jamaica officials when the question was put to him about whether his charge would be participating in the 100m after a training session at the Complexe sportif de l’lle-des-Vannes training centre in Saint-Denis, France.
Speculations mounted on the ground in Paris over the last few days about whether or not Jackson would compete in the 100 metres.
The 30-year-old Jackson earned the right to seek her first individual Olympic title in Paris by winning a 100m and 200m double at last month’s Jamaica Olympic trials, clocking 10.84 over the shorter distance and putting herself fifth on this year’s world list.
However, her Olympic ambitions were cast into doubt on July 9 when she pulled up when on the brink of winning the 200m at the Istvan Gyulai Memorial meeting in Szekesfehervar and what should have been a confirmation of her Olympic form turned into an open question.
On Tuesday, however, Francis said, as far as he knows, Jackson appears to be okay to him.
