THOMPSON-HERAH, THE JAMAICAN SPRINT CHAMPION, LEAVES FROM COACH

Eight months before she tries to defend her sprint titles at the 2024 Paris Games, Elaine Thompson-Herah, a five-time Olympic gold medallist, has broken up with her coach, her representative announced on Wednesday.

Shanikie Osbourne and Thompson-Herah split up because the latter refused to accept what she called her coach’s “very excessive” demands.
The management team of Thompson-Herah stated, “The package proposed by (Osbourne) was extremely excessive and without any flexibility to negotiate by the other party.”

All of us were left with no option except to look for another coach.

“Mrs. Thompson-Herah is fully focused on her preparations for the season and the defense of her Olympic titles as the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France, draw near.”

Thompson-Herah, 31, set a record in 2021 for the second-fastest woman in history over 100 meters when she ran in Eugene, Oregon, in 10.54 seconds. The only person who has run faster is Florence Griffith-Joyner, the 1988 Olympic winner.

For the majority of the last ten years, Thompson-Herah has dominated women’s sprinting; in Rio and Tokyo, she won both the 100-200m double and the gold medal in the 4x100m relay.

Her 2023 season was, however, hindered by injuries, and she was unable to get a berth on the Jamaican squad for the August World Championships in Budapest.