Fraser-Pryce reaffirms retirement plans; says focus will be on family after Paris Games
Jamaica's three-time Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce says she "owes" it to her family to retire after this summer's Games in Paris.
The 37-year-old, regarded as one of the greatest sprinters of all time, won the 100m title in 2008 and 2012. Fraser-Pryce also won Tokyo 2020 Olympic relay gold, plus three of her 10 world titles, in a comeback after giving birth to her son in 2017.
"There's not a day I'm getting up to go practise and I'm like, 'I'm over this," she told Essence.com.
"My son needs me. My husband and I have been together since before I won in 2008. He has sacrificed for me.
"We're a partnership, a team. And it's because of that support that I'm able to do the things that I have been doing for all these years. And I think I now owe it to them to do something else," she added.
On that note, Fraser-Pryce pointed out that this year's Olympics in Paris were about "showing people that you stop when you decide.
"I want to finish on my own terms," she declared.
In total, Fraser-Pryce has won three Olympic golds, four silvers and a bronze.