Jamaican sprint legend Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, a three-time Olympic gold medalist, has announced that she will retire after this year's Paris Olympics.
The Jamaican star told the American magazine Essence that she is forcing herself to retire at the age of 37 so that she may spend more time with her family.
"My son needs me," Fraser-Pryce told the magazine. "My husband and I have been together since before I won in 2008. He has sacrificed for me. We're a partnership, a team.
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"It's because of that support that I'm able to do the things that I've been doing for all these years. And I think I now owe it to them to do something else," she added.
She is focusing on her training for a final opportunity at Olympic gold in France, which Fraser-Pryce describes as "pushing boundaries" and "showing people that you stop when you decide.
"I want to finish on my own terms."
Fraser-Pryce has eight Olympic medals, including 100-meter golds in Beijing in 2008 and London in 2012, as well as a Tokyo Olympic crown as part of Jamaica's 4x100 relay team.
"There's not a day I'm getting up to go practice and I'm like, 'I'm over this,'" Fraser-Pryce said.
