{"id":18812,"date":"2024-06-18T11:23:06","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T11:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/elaine-thompson-herah-will-not-defend-200m-title-at-paris-olympic-games\/"},"modified":"2024-06-18T11:23:07","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T11:23:07","slug":"elaine-thompson-herah-will-not-defend-200m-title-at-paris-olympic-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/elaine-thompson-herah-will-not-defend-200m-title-at-paris-olympic-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Elaine Thompson-Herah will not defend 200m title at Paris Olympic Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Jamaica&#8217;s five-time Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah will not defend her 200m title at this summer&#8217;s Games in Paris.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 31-year-old has opted not to race over the distance at the upcoming Jamaican trials but will still compete in the 100m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thompson-Herah appeared to sustain an injury during the 100m at the NYC Grand Prix earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She is the second-fastest woman in history over 100m and became the first woman to win back-to-back Olympic sprint doubles when she retained her 100m and 200m titles at Tokyo 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In November Thompson-Herah split with coach Shanikie Osbourne and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/athletics\/67479574\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">appointed Reynaldo Walcott,<\/a> who also coaches her Jamaica team-mate Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The athletics events at the Paris Olympics take place from 1-11 August.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/athletics\/articles\/cx99k2vy77ro\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamaica&#8217;s five-time Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah will not defend her 200m title at this summer&#8217;s Games in Paris. The 31-year-old has opted not to race over the distance at the upcoming Jamaican trials but will still compete in the 100m. Thompson-Herah appeared to sustain an injury during the 100m at the NYC Grand Prix earlier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18812"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18814,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18812\/revisions\/18814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}