A sprinting star is born – but St Lucian champion didn’t feel like the underdog in victory over Sha’Carri Richardson
Who writes your scripts? Well, clearly not Netflix anyway. On a sodden, puddle-ridden night at the Paris Olympics a star was born. Just not, perhaps, the one most people were expecting.
What a lovely, deliciously unplanned and unstaged moment this was in the rain of Saint Denis. Instead of Sha’Carri Richardson, flat-out favourite and star of the current big budget track and field-ommercial running on a streaming behemoth near you, it was 23-year-old Julien Alfred of St Lucia who found herself skating out across the purple track ahead of the field and running into track and field history.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/aug/03/julien-alfred-brings-the-beauty-and-junks-the-script-on-way-to-100m-glory
Author : Barney Ronay at the Stade de France
Publish date : 2024-08-03 21:25:37
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