Five-time Olympic gold medalist Elaine Thompson-Herah is making her return to competition after missing the Paris Games due to a torn Achilles tendon. The 33-year-old Jamaican sprinter underwent a 20-month rehabilitation process and is using this season as a stepping stone toward her third Olympic appearance.
"It's been a rough one, mentally, but I've overcome that," Thompson-Herah told reporters ahead of the World Athletics Relays in Botswana. She ran in the Jamaican women's 4x100m relay, a team she helped win gold at the Tokyo Olympics.
The first woman to win back-to-back Olympic sprint doubles-retaining her 100m and 200m titles in Tokyo 2021-Thompson-Herah says she feels no pain and is eager to defend her titles at the Commonwealth Games in July.
"Once the pain is gone, Elaine is capable of doing anything," she said.