Elaine Thompson-Herah broke Florence Griffith Joyner's 33-year-old Olympic record in the women's 100 metres, pointing at the scoreboard even before crossing the line in 10.61 seconds Saturday to defend her title and lead a Jamaican sweep of the medals.
Thompson-Herah beat her top rival, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, by .13 seconds. Shericka Jackson, who moved to the shorter sprints for the Tokyo Olympics, won bronze in 10.76.This was the first Jamaican sweep of the medals since the women did it at the 2008 Beijing Games -- a feat somewhat overshadowed that week by the record-setting performance by Usain Bolt.
Fraser-Pryce and Thompson-Herah are headed for a possible rematch in the 200, where Thompson-Herah is also the defending champion. And when the sprinters arrived in Japan, they discovered a fast track at Olympic Stadium. In the semifinals earlier Saturday, the Jamaicans all cracked 10.8 to get on the list of the 10 best times in Olympic history.Flo Jo's records are older than virtually every sprinter in the women's game, save Fraser-Pryce, who was born about 18 months before the American set the marks. Griffith Joyner's world record, the 10.49, is still out there, and no other woman has ever broken 10.6.
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