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Team Jamaica includes Usain Bolt, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce for Commonwealth Games
Usain Bolt. PHOTO/File
Jamaican sprint stars Usain Bolt and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce were included in Jamaica’s 68-strong athletics squad for the upcoming Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
Six-time Olympic gold medallist Bolt and two-time 100m Olympic champion Fraser-Pryce are both expected to compete only in the 4x100m relays.
Both missed last weekend’s Jamaican championships, the selection meeting for the Commonwealth Games, after requesting medical exemptions.
Under the rules of the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA), top ranked athletes who request medical exemption from the trials can be included in the squad, but must prove their fitness before the Games start.
Fraser-Pryce had a string of poor results before submitting her medical certificate, but Bolt, who had earlier indicated along with training partner Yohan Blake that they were not interested in racing in Glasgow, had a change of heart last week and signaled his readiness to compete at the Games.
However Bolt, the world record holder in the 100m and 200m, had said he did not want to take a spot in an individual race from an athlete who earned selection at the trials.
Multiple world and Olympic champion Veronica Campbell-Brown and World and Olympic 200m medallist Warren Weir are also on the team.
