Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce says she is not yet ready to explain her coaching situation.
On Saturday, after she ran a world-leading time of 10.86 at the Velocity Fest meet at the National Stadium, Fraser-Pryce deflected when asked who was her coach.
“Who is my coach?” she asked, before breaking out into laughter. “You’re putting me on the spot? That’s for another time but as I said, I am grateful for how the season has gone so far and I am looking forward to what the season will bring, God’s willing, in 2021.”
The 33-year-old two-time Olympic 100m champion has been training under the guidance of Renaldo Walcott for several months now but there has been no official word that she has parted ways with Stephen Francis and the MVP Track Club. While with MVP, she built a legacy as one of the greatest female sprinters in history having won Olympic 100m titles in 2008 and 2012 and 100m World titles in 2009, 2013, 2015, and 2019. She also won a 200m title in Moscow in 2013.
However, she briefly left the club after the 2016 Rio Olympics and trained with Walcott in Santa Cruz in St. Elizabeth before returning to MVP in 2017.
In May, Sportsmax.TV reported that the athlete was once again training with Walcott, this time at the National Stadium in Kingston while the MVP athletes trained at the nearby Stadium East facility.
Asked recently whether the sprint queen was still with the club, Francis said: “I can’t answer that question. I know that she is not at training here but I can’t answer that question.”