Elaine Thompson-Herah Suffers Injury

Elaine Thompson-Herah, the two-time reigning Olympic 100m and 200m champion, will miss the Jamaican Olympic trials and the Paris Games.

She sustained a small Achilles tendon tear at the USATF New York City Grand Prix on June 9.

Elaine Thompson-Herah is 31 years old.

Thompson-Herah and countryman Usain Bolt are the only sprinters to win multiple Olympic titles each in the 100m and 200m.

Thompson-Herah is the second-fastest woman in history in the 100m, running 10.54 seconds at the 2021 Prefontaine Classic.

The Jamaican trials are expected to include 2008 and 2012 Olympic 100m champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and two-time reigning world 200m champion Shericka Jackson.

Elaine Thompson-Herah ran strictly the 100m at the Jamaican Championships in 2023 and placed fifth.

She later ran 10.79 at the Pre Classic to finish 2024 as the world's fifth-fastest woman for the year.

Elaine Thompson-Herah posted on her social media, "It’s a long road but I am willing to start over and keep working and to make full recovery and resume my track career."

She also stated, "I am hurt and devastated to be missing the Olympic this year but at the end of the day it’s sports and my health comes first.