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When the question came, shortly after Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce had eased through her 100m heat in a time so jaw-droppingly fast it would have won silver at the 2016 Rio Olympics, the Jamaican world champion did not flinch. Do you think you can go 10.5sec in the 100m final? “Sure, definitely,” she replied. “It’s definitely a super-fast track.”
Such a time would put her within a hair’s breadth of Florence Griffith-Joyner’s 33-year-old world record. And yet, watching Fraser-Pryce run 10.84 while slowing down long before the finish, it seemed an entirely reasonable response.
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