Ta Lou ready to end Jamaican and U.S. sprint supremacy


FILE PHOTO: Athletics - Diamond League - Pontaise Stadium, Lausanne, Switzerland - July 5, 2018 Ivory Coast's Marie-Josee Ta Lou celebrates winning the Women's 100m REUTERS/Denis Balibouse

ASABA, Nigeria (Reuters) - African sprint queen Marie-Josee Ta Lou believes the era of Jamaican and American women dominating track and fields shortest events is coming to an end.

The Ivory Coast athlete, the year's joint fastest over 100 metres, will have a chance to prove that point twice in the coming days when the world silver medallist races in Thursday's Diamond League final in Zurich and the IAAF Continental Cup in Ostrava, Czech Republic.

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