Fans in love as video of Olympic sprint legend joining in parents’ race at her boy’s school sports day emerges
AN OLYMPIC sprint legend had fans in awe as she joined in the parents’ race at her son’s school sports day.
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is used to taking on the world’s fastest women in some of the best athletics stadiums in the world.
The 36-year-old won 100m gold at Beijing 2008 and London 2012 as well as 4x100m gold at Tokyo 2020 – as well as a further four silvers and a bronze in the last three Games.
But she swapped all of that Olympic legacy for the dusty track at sports day for her and husband Jason Pryce’s five-year-old son Zyon, born in August 2017.
The Jamaican star brutally left her fellow mums in her wake with a no-holding-back dash.
Fraser-Pryce burst away from the line as the other four desperately tried to stay within reach.
But they had absolutely no chance against the third-fastest woman EVER – whose personal best across 100m is a staggering 10.60 seconds.
The sprinter, decked out in a blue t-shirt and a backwards cap to keep her amazing dyed hair under control, blitzed along the straight-line track to wild cheers from the watching crowd while her rival parents battled it out for second place.
Fraser-Pryce even took to Facebook to celebrate maybe the easiest victory of her stellar career.
She wrote: “Every point counts,” followed by a series of emojis.
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And fans took to social media to laud the hero’s brilliant efforts and amazing sportsmanship to get involved.
One said: “A queen and more.”
Another wrote: “I wish elite track and field athletes vs regular people was a TV show.”
A third commented: “This is bullying The parent who came second has a bragging right for life.”
And a user joked: “You didn’t have to do the parents like that.”
But one grumpy fan asked: “Why did she do that?” and a couple of other grinches criticised her for getting involved.
Fraser-Pryce’s win comes a month after Sir Mo Farah revealed the Olympic champion came second in a dads’ race – to a bloke wearing jeans.
Farah was even wearing his spikes for the 100m dash and admitted: “I can’t sprint.”