KINGSTON, (Reuters) – For someone with such single-minded focus on the track, Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce has shown a distinct lack of decisiveness when it comes to deciding whether she will defend both of her world sprint titles this month.
Ahead of the Stockholm Diamond League in late July, she said running in the 200 metres as well as the 100 metres at the world championships was still “possible”, before ruling it out in early August.
On Tuesday, however, she was listed in the Jamaican team for Beijing as running in the 100m, 200m and 4x100m — the three events in which she won an unprecedented haul of gold medals at the 2013 world championships in Moscow.
All, though, was apparently not as it seemed.
“No, I’m not contesting the 200m, I’ve said that a long time,” the 28-year-old told Reuters by text from her training camp in Italy on Wednesday.
