FILE PHOTO: Athletics - JAAA National Senior Championships - National Stadium, Kingston, Jamaica - June 27, 2021 Jamaica's Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce celebrates after winning the women's 200 m REUTERS/Gilbert Bellamy
TOKYO (Reuters) - Jamaica's Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce will be looking to make history on Saturday as the first woman to win three Olympic 100m gold medals and cement her place as one of the transcendent talents in the sport.
Thirteen years after her triumph in Beijing, at the age of 34, and having taken time out to have a baby, Fraser-Pryce arrived in Tokyo on the back of an astonishing 10.63 second run and hot favourite to match compatriot Usain Bolt with a third gold in the blue ribbon 100m event.
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