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Elaine Thompson-Herah has opened up on the odd choice of diet she had at the Rio 2016 Olympics and the morning she ran a blistering 10.54 seconds in the 100m of the Prefontaine Classic in 2021.
Jamaican sprint star Elaine Thompson-Herah, a two-time Olympic double champion, recently shared surprising details about her diet and mindset during some of her most iconic performances.
Speaking on Asafa Powell’s YouTube channel back in 2022, she opened up about her unconventional eating habits before her first Olympic double in 2016 and the remarkable 10.54-second sprint at the Prefontaine Classic in 2021, making her the fastest woman alive.
Reflecting on the 2016 Rio Olympics, Thompson-Herah revealed that her diet featured an unusual indulgence.
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“At my first Olympics, I had a lot of McDonald’s because I had it in the village. I did not break it at Rio,” she admitted.
Despite her unconventional fuel, Thompson-Herah secured her first Olympic golds in Rio, clocking 10.71 seconds in the 100m and 21.78 seconds in the 200m. Her triumph ended a 28-year drought for Jamaica in the women’s 200m and marked the beginning of her dominance on the global stage.
The sprinter also detailed the morning leading up to her astonishing 10.54-second sprint in Eugene, Oregon, in 2021, just weeks after winning triple gold at the Tokyo Olympics.
“We flew from Italy to Eugene, so I did not have anything much. I had a big breakfast, which was pancakes and one bag of sweet sweets,” she revealed.
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Unaware that she was on the verge of making history, Thompson-Herah approached the race with a relaxed mindset.
“I didn’t know I would run that 10.54 because it was the last thing on my brain. I had won three gold medals at the Olympics, so I was relaxed,” she explained.
Thompson-Herah described the race as feeling deceptively slow, despite the historic outcome.
“I think that was the slowest race I ever ran in my head because when I came back, I told my therapist I felt lousy in my warm-up and felt like I messed the first 30 meters,” she said.
But when the race ended and the scoreboard lit up with her time, Thompson-Herah was in disbelief.
“When the board came out and I saw I had run that time, I clenched my fists close to my mouth because I could not believe it. I did not feel like I ran that fast.”
Thompson-Herah’s 10.54 remains the second-fastest time in women’s 100m history, just 0.05 seconds shy of Florence Griffith-Joyner’s 10.49 world record from 1988. With a top speed of 40 km/h in that race, she became the first woman to break that barrier.
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