A visible gap in the starting block of the 100 meters semifinals, on Saturday at the Stade de France. Jamaican Shelly Ann Fraser-Pryce was not there. He did not run, and it took some time before there was an official explanation. What came, and no one has yet denied, including him, talked about a muscle problem, a pulled hamstring.
But a few hours later a video appeared on social media in which the athlete himself was seen arguing with the officials who, inside the stadium, did not let him into another room, apparently the training track. And Fraser-Pryce apparently arrived late for the deadline for athletes to show up to compete.
In the video you can hear the athlete telling one of the officials that he was not allowed in: “How do you change a rule and not inform the athletes? Are you saying that all the athletes who did not come from Villa are not can enter through this door, we entered here the other day, we passed the security check and everything is fine.
Apparently, the discussion delayed the entry of the woman competing here in her fifth Games, one of the top multi-medallists in history.
The Jamaican team later posted that they had finally allowed Fraser-Pryce in, but did not clarify whether this entire episode influenced his non-appearance in the race, or whether he was also injured.
Source: La Verdad
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