Sha’Carri Richardson’s Jamaican teammate Alana Reid reveals major target for upcoming season

ATHLETICS Sha’Carri Richardson’s Jamaican teammate Alana Reid reveals major target for upcoming season

Mark Kinyanjui 06:33 - 22.03.2024

Reid has revealed her targets for the year with the Paris 2024 Olympics set to take place this August.

Fast-rising Jamaican sprintstar Alana Reid is targeting Olympic qualification as her biggest objective for the season.

Reid, who won bronze in the 200 metres at the 2022 World Under-20 Championships at the age of 17, while attending Hydel High School, is the Jamaican junior record holder for the women's 100 metres.

The now-19-year-old, who has been training with World 100m champion Sha’Carri Richardson, has revealed her biggest objective for the forthcoming season

“My main goal is to make the Olympic team. That is what I have been working towards. I would say I really have bad days but I have something I really want to accomplish,” Reid said in an interview with Fitz Dunkley.

Reid is optimistic learning new techniques will gradually help her improve, revealing her other objective for the year.

“Just to be better than last year, technique-wise and more. I know that once I start getting gradually better, then my times will improve.

“It is not just about running fast times. For me, it is just to have a better technique and approach races better.”

At the Olympic Games, Reid hopes to join multiple world champion Fraser-Pryce, multiple Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah, and two-time world 200m champion Shericka Jackson.

She believes that competing with them will add a wealth of experience as she looks to also carve her lane in her already glamorous career.

“It is just for me to stay focused, I know they are bigger than me so they have more experience so it is kind of me to not (just) follow them, but just have my own path.

“I think I would do that very well because in training, I am there, I have days when I really have water in my eyes ‘cause I am like, I don’t know where I am going or there are days where not everything goes the way I want it to go but I know things take time, so it is just for me to take my time and I know everything will fall into place when it should.”

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