A string of late withdrawals has begun to shadow Jamaica’s otherwise formidable sprinting ledger. The pattern first tightened at the Olympic Games Paris 2024, when Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce withdrew prior to the 100m semi-final on August 3, 2024 after sustaining an injury in her final warm-up. Shericka Jackson followed the next day by pulling out of the 200m on August 4, 2024, citing ongoing hamstring concerns. The personal cost was plain and immediate. “It is difficult for me to find the words to describe the depth of my disappointment,” Fraser-Pryce wrote on Instagram. And now, as Shelly-Ann gears up for her run at the World Athletics Championship one last time, her country has faced a major setback.

That fragile sequence has now carried into the 2025 season. While this Worlds was s

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