As part of a seismic schedule change for the 2028 Los Angeles Games, track and field, and not swimming, will lead off the Olympics.
Melissa Jefferson-Wooden of the U.S. and Oblique Seville of Jamaica won the 100-meter finals at world championships in a changing of the guard in track.
Sha’Carri Richardson picked up speed down the stretch and turned her opening run in Tokyo into a season-best.
As the first St. Lucian to win an Olympic medal, sprinter Julien Alfred already has poetry, paintings and even a calypso song dedicated to her.
Julien Alfred cruised in her opening-round heat of the 200 meters the morning after the sprinter from St. Lucia won the Olympic 100.
Jamaican sprinter Shericka Jackson pulled out of the women’s 200 meters and will not race for an individual medal at the Paris Olympics.
Sha’Carri Richardson’s comeback story hit a brick wall Saturday when Julien Alfred romped to the 100-meter title in 10.72 seconds to blow away the field and bring the first-ever Olympic medal to her island country of St. Lucia.
