BY HOWARD WALKER Observer senior reporter walkerh@jamaicaobserver.com Thursday, May 15, 2014
OLYMPIC champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and 2011 World Championships 100m champion Yohan Blake will headline a powerful 39-strong Jamaican squad to the inaugural IAAF World Relays set for the Bahamas, May 24 and 25, the Jamaica Observer understands.
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| FRASER-PRYCE… should team up with the likes of Kerron Stewart, Carrie Russell, Simone Facey and Anneshia McLaughlin in both 4x100m and 4x200m relays |
However, as expected the world's fastest man, Usain Bolt, was not selected by the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) for the event that also serves as a qualifier to the 2015 World Championships.
Bolt has not run competitively all season and recently he indicated in a Jamaica Observer story that his participation was solely dependent on his coach Glen Mills.
Seven-time Olympic medallist Veronica Campbell Brown, who was selected for Jamaica's World Indoor Championships team in March, was also excluded.
But Campbell Brown, the three-time Olympic 200m champion, is set for a mouth-watering clash with reigning 200m world champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce at the Shanghai Diamond League in China this Sunday.
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| BLAKE… has a stunning personal best of 19.26 seconds in the 200m |
The full team was expected to be officially announced yesterday after ratification by the JAAA, but up to press time last night, a lengthy meeting that was scheduled to start at 5:00 pm to discuss same was still in progress.
Both Blake and Fraser-Pryce are expected to lead Jamaica in the 4x100m and 4x200m relays.
With both Bolt and the suspended Asafa Powell missing from Jamaica's powerful 4x100m team, Blake, the 100-metre 2011 world champion, should line up alongside Nesta Carter, Kemar Bailey-Cole and the improving duo of either Andrew Fisher or Jason Livermore. more
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