In the city where she expects to ironclad her legacy at the Olympics next year, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is reliving the moment she went viral on the school run. You may have seen the clip of the greatest female sprinter in history, baseball cap back to front, thrashing a field of fellow mums on her son’s sports day in Jamaica recently. But, as Fraser-Pryce reveals for the first time, there was more to it than meets the eye. It boiled down to pride after a fall – as well as an audacious challenge from another parent.
“Two weeks beforehand she started sending me photos of her working out in the gym. And then she told me she was coming for me!” says Fraser-Pryce, her smile lighting up a gunmetal grey day in Paris. “I was like, ‘You can’t be serious girl!’”. But the friend, whose daughter is in her five-year-old son’s Zyon’s class, insisted she wouldn’t be backing down. “And when we got to sports day, she even started giving me the eyes, trying to psych me out.”
