{"text":[[{"start":10.66,"text":"Julien Alfred of St Lucia won the women’s 100 metres at the Paris Olympics in a national record of 10.72 seconds, upsetting world champion and fastest woman in the world this year Sha’Carri Richardson of the US who had to settle for silver. "}],[{"start":26.73,"text":"Alfred, 23, became the first athlete from the tiny Caribbean nation of 168,000 inhabitants to win an Olympic medal. "},{"start":36.472,"text":"Richardson suffered a poor start in pouring summer rain, but rebounded in the final metres to claim second place in 10.87 seconds. "},{"start":45.902,"text":"Her compatriot and training partner Melissa Jefferson won bronze, narrowly edging Daryll Neita of Great Britain. "}],[{"start":53.379999999999995,"text":"Constrained by resources at home, Alfred moved to Jamaica for high school and attended the University of Texas. "},{"start":60.946999999999996,"text":"Asked what her historic victory meant for St Lucia, Alfred said: “I’m really hoping we can get a new stadium, I’m really hoping we can help the youth in the country . . . to help them believe that even though they came from a small place in the Caribbean, they can make it out. ”"}],[{"start":77.16999999999999,"text":"The results followed an evening of confusion at the Stade de France during which a pre-race favourite, the three-time gold medallist Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce of Jamaica abruptly dropped out before the semi-final. "},{"start":89.38699999999999,"text":"Videos circulating on social media purported to show Fraser-Pryce and Richardson initially being denied entry to the warm-up area a few hours before the start of the event. "}],[{"start":100.98999999999998,"text":"Christopher Samuda, president of the Jamaican Olympic Committee, told the Financial Times he was aware of the videos but had not yet been briefed by Fraser-Pryce’s management team as to why she did not start the semi-final. "}],[{"start":115.56999999999998,"text":"“I have every confidence that she would have participated in the final”, he said, noting that she looked comfortable and confident in previous warm ups. "},{"start":124.92399999999998,"text":"“Shelly is such a character that she would want to go out running for her country”. "}],[{"start":130.14999999999998,"text":"A spokesman for World Athletics deferred questions about warm-up area access to local organisers. "},{"start":136.71699999999998,"text":"Spokespeople for Paris 2024 and the Jamaican athletics federation did not immediately respond to requests for comment. "}],[{"start":145.77999999999997,"text":"Alfred’s gold medal marked the first time since 2004 that a non-Jamaican has won the women’s 100 metres at the Olympic Games, and the first time since 1988 that Jamaica has been completely shut out of the medals in the event. "}],[{"start":161.31999999999996,"text":"Jamaica’s Shericka Jackson, defending Olympic bronze medallist in the 100 metres, withdrew from the event in Paris in order to focus on the 200 metre race, her speciality. "}],[{"start":173.85999999999996,"text":"Richardson, whose personal best of 10.65 places her fifth on the all-time list, made her first Olympic appearance after winning the 2021 US Olympic trials for selection to the Tokyo Games, only to have her results nullified days later upon a positive test for marijuana, a prohibited substance. "}],[{"start":194.62999999999997,"text":"Alfred’s victory came on an evening of firsts — Dominica’s Thea Lafond, 30, won gold a few minutes later in the triple jump. "},{"start":203.82199999999997,"text":"She broke the national record with her 15.02 metre jump, and in the process secured her country’s first ever Olympic medal. "}],[{"start":212.23999999999995,"text":""}]],"url":"https://creatives.ftacademy.cn/album/166139-1722759093.mp3"}