In breaking Florence Griffith-Joyner’s Olympic record, Elaine Thompson-Herah has begun the process of removing a long-standing millstone around women’s sprinting
Minutes before the start of the women’s 100m final, the most keenly anticipated race at these Games, the lights fell and that familiar hush settled over the stadium. A helicopter buzzed overh
ead, a laser show played on the home straight, but everything else was still. The atmosphere felt charged with expectation.
