Source: Caribbean Life
Elaine Thompson-Herah will ramp up her preparations for next year’s international Track and Field season under the guidance of Elite Performance Track Club coach, Reynaldo Walcott.
A statement from her management company, Andi Sports confirmed that the embattled Jamaican sprint queen had hooked up with Walcott, who coaches Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, with whom Thompson-Herah appears to have a frosty relationship.
Media reports indicate that Thompson-Herah will not be training with athletes of the Elite Performance in Kingston, but Walcott will work with her in a private setting after he completes his duties at the Ashenheim Stadium at Jamaica College each day.
Elaine Thompson-Herah will ramp up her preparations for next year’s international Track and Field season under the guidance of Elite Performance Track Club coach, Reynaldo Walcott.
Andi Sports confirmed recently that the 31-year-old had separated from Shanikie Osbourne, her coach during the later stages of this past international track & field season, after a breakdown in negotiations over compensation.
Thompson-Herah won a historic sprint double of 100 metres and 200 metres at back-to-back Olympics — in 2016 in the city of Rio-de-Janeiro, in Brazil. The COVID-19 delayed the 2020 Games in the Japanese city of Tokyo and will be looking to defend her titles at the Games next year in Paris.
She failed to earn a place on the Jamaica team for this year’s World Athletics Championships in August in the Hungarian capital of Budapest, where she brought Osbourne onto her coaching staff.
Thompson-Herah, the second-fastest woman clocked over 100 with a personal best time of 10.54 seconds.