Jamaica''''s Fraser-Pryce Jackson earn 100-meter spots at Paris Olympics

Kingston, Jamaica (AP) Shericka Jackson won Jamaica's 100-meter national title Friday and will be joined at the Olympics by Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, who finished third in the race and will head to her fifth and final games.
    Fraser-Pryce finished second and Jackson third at the Tokyo Games behind two-time defending Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah, who is injured this year.
    Jackson's time of 10.84 seconds was 0.06 seconds faster than 19-year-old Tia Clayton, who will make her Olympic debut.
    Fraser-Pryce won the 2008 and 2012 Olympic titles at 100 meters. Jackson is the reigning world champion at 200 meters.
    In the men's 100, Kishane Thompson ran a world-leading 9.77 to beat 2021 Olympic semifinalist Oblique Seville. (AP) ATK

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