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Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Earns Fastest Woman Alive Title

Jamaican sprinter Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is now the fastest woman alive. 

The two-time Olympic champion ran the 100 meters in 10.63 seconds at a national trials warmup event in Kingston, Jamaica, on Saturday.

Only one woman, American sprinter Florence Griffith Joyner, has ever clocked a faster time: 10.49 seconds. Flo-Jo, who died in 1998, ran the three fastest times ever in the 100 meters in 1988: 10.49, 10.61 and 10.62. Fraser-Pryce’s latest run makes her the second-fastest woman of all time. 

The 34-year-old told reporters after the race that she was at a “loss for words.” Read More

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