{"id":485952,"date":"2024-08-03T15:50:15","date_gmt":"2024-08-03T19:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=485952"},"modified":"2024-08-03T15:50:15","modified_gmt":"2024-08-03T19:50:15","slug":"alfred-wins-historic-olympic-100m-gold-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/alfred-wins-historic-olympic-100m-gold-in-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"Alfred wins historic Olympic 100m gold in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Julien Alfred made history for St. Lucia by winning the Olympic women&#8217;s 100m title at Paris 2024, becoming the country&#8217;s first-ever Olympic medalist.<\/p>\n<p>Competing at the Stade de France under heavy rain, Alfred dominated the final and secured victory with a national record time of 10.72 seconds.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Saint Lucia&#8217;s first ever Olympic champion, and it&#8217;s the women&#8217;s 100m.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t get better than this. \ud83c\uddf1\ud83c\udde8\u2764\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HS63DLUHJ0\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/HS63DLUHJ0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Olympic Games (@Olympics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Olympics\/status\/1819817460037501045?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 3, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>American world champion Sha&#8217;Carri Richardson earned the silver medal with a time of 10.87 seconds, while her compatriot Melissa Jefferson claimed bronze, finishing in 10.92 seconds. Great Britain&#8217;s Daryll Neita narrowly missed the podium, finishing fourth with a time of 10.96 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>One of the main favorites Shelly-Ann Fraser-Fryce surprisingly withdrew from the semi-final heats, as videos later showed that she was denied to enter the warm-up area, because all athletes should arrive with the team bus and not by alternative transportation. This way the Jamaican sprinter couldn&#8217;t compete in her final Olympic 100 meters race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julien Alfred made history for St. Lucia by winning the Olympic women&#8217;s 100m title at Paris 2024, becoming the country&#8217;s first-ever Olympic medalist. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":485953,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18356,19028],"news_category":[20292],"gn_keywords":[18357,19029],"acf":{"announce":"American world champion Sha'Carri Richardson finished second after a poor start off the blocks ","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485952"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485954,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485952\/revisions\/485954"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485952"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=485952"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=485952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}