Olympic Games Paris 2024

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Yona Knight-Wisdom named captains of Team Jamaica at Paris 2024

By Sven Busch
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Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce 

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Sprinting legend Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and diver Yona Knight-Wisdom will serve as captains for Team Jamaica at the Olympic Games Paris 2024.

Fraser-Pryce will be competing at her fifth and final Games in the 100m and 4x100m relay, hoping to add more silverware to her eight Olympic medals.

The 37-year-old superstar was supposed to race on Tuesday (16 July) at Spitzen Leichtathletik Luzern in Switzerland but said she "felt something" during pre-race warm-ups and pulled out.

The meet in Luzern would have been the three-time Olympic gold medallist's first international race of the season.

The Jamaica Olympic Association (JOA) has nominated 58 athletes for Paris: 54 athletes in track and field, two swimmers, one judoka and Knight-Wisdom who became Jamaica's first-ever male diver at the Rio 2016 Olympics. Paris 2024 will be his third Games.

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