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Sha’Carri Richardson’s coach Dennis Mitchell made a bold prediction about the USA - Jamaica sprint rivalry which came to pass at the Paris Olympics through Noah Lyles.
US athletics coach Dennis Mitchell might have had mixed feelings at the Paris Olympics after watching one of his predictions come to fruition but not through any of his athletes.
Mitchell, who works with world champion Sha’Carri Richardson and Twanisha “Tee Tee” Terry among a host of other sprinters, was sure of Team USA ending Jamaica’s dominance over the 100m and felt he had the talent in his camp to achieve that at the Paris 2024 Games.
America had never won the 100m men’s gold since Justin Gatlin did it at the 2004 Athens Olympics while the women’s crown had eluded them since the 1996 Atlanta Games, Yolanda Gail Devers-Roberts the last American to bring it home.
Over the years, they had watched as Jamaicans dominated with Usain Bolt claiming it in 2008, 2012, 2016, before Marcell Jacobs shocked all to clinch the tile in Tokyo 2020 while in the women’s category, Jamaicans through Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (2008) and Elaine Thompson-Herah (2016 and 2020) reigned supreme.
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However, heading to the Paris Games, Mitchell made a bold prediction, saying: “I’ve always known as a coach that if I just had the right athletes, that we could break the dominance of the Jamaican athletes,” in episode 3 of Netflix documentary SPRINT.
“It’s been 30 years since an American female has won an Olympic gold medal in the 100 meters. And to achieve that goal, that will be a great accomplishment,” he added.
As it turned out, the men’s title came back to America but it was not one of Mitchell’s athletes as world champion Noah Lyles shrugged off Jamaican Kishane Thompson to claim gold.
Thompson had come into the race with the fastest time of the year of 9.77 seconds and in a close contest, Lyles beat the Jamaican by five-thousandths of a second, having clocked 9.784 seconds to his 9.789 seconds.
“It’s been 20 years since the men's 100-meter champion has come from the US. It’s just been Jamaica constantly, and I brought it back. I brought it back to the US,” Lyles roared after his win.
Mitchell’s prophecy turned out to be true in the men’s side but when it came to the women’s race, things did not go to plan as even with Jamaicans Fraser-Pryce, Thompson-Herah and Shericka Jackson out due to injuries, Richardson could not beat St Lucia’s Julien Alfred, who clocked 10.72 for gold while the American settled for silver in 10.87.
America now has the men’s bragging rights but Mitchell has his work cut out in the women’s race after her sprinters fell short in Paris.
That is extra motivation for the home Olympics in Los Angeles in 2028.
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Mitchell coaches Sha'Carri Richardson, Mellisa Jefferson and Twanisha 'Tee Tee' Terry, who represented USA in the final of the 100 meters at the Paris 2024 Olympics, as well as the 4 by 100 meter
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