The Jamaicans are expected in the women’s 100m this Sunday. Elaine Thompson-Herah, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Shericka Jackson are the big favorites for the event. The first completed the 100m-200m double at the last two editions of the Olympic Games, in Rio and Tokyo, but has never been crowned individual world champion. The second is the outgoing world champion of the queen race. And the third goes down successfully from the 400m to the short sprint, to the point of landing in Eugene in the shoes of the second best performer of the season in 10 sec 77. Behind Fraser-Price (10.67) and ahead of Thompson-Herah (10.79) .
Whimsical and exuberant attraction, the American Sha’Carri Richardson is not there: she did not pass the cut of the American selections at the end of June.
Allen as pack leader in 110m hurdles?
This is one of the world records likely to fall on the Oregon track, under the assault of American hurdlers.
Devon Allen, best performer of the season and who will switch to American football after these Worlds, approached it only four hundredths in mid-June in New York (12.84 against 12.80).
But his three compatriots who follow him in the world balance sheets, the outgoing world champion and Olympic silver medalist in Tokyo last summer, Grant Holloway, in the lead, have not said their last word. Nor the reigning Olympic champion, the Jamaican Hansle Parchment.
What if the French pulled out of the game in this event which has historically succeeded for them? Two profiles apply there: the thirty-year-old who has returned from everything Pascal Martinot-Lagarde and the nugget with vertiginous progression Sasha Zhoya.
Crouser like at home
The threat to the world record is even more specific in the shot put as Ryan Crouser, a native of Portland, about two hours drive from Eugene, is at ease in Hayward Field.
It was precisely in this stadium that he seized the world record in June 2021 during the Olympic trials, with a throw of 23.37 m. Here again, the reigning double Olympic champion came closer to 25 cm at the end of last month (23.12 m), again during the American “trials”.
During qualifying on Friday, Crouser (29) announced the color by pushing the competition more than 80 cm.
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