Elaine Thompson-Herah Practises Her ‘Dirt Bounce’ Ahead Of 4x100m Relay Finals
Update: Jamaica’s women sprinters Elaine Thompson-Herah, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Shericka Jackson and Briana Williams have won the gold medal in the 4×100 metre race today. The team clocked in at 41.02 seconds to win Gold for Jamaica for the first time in the event since 2004. USA, the defending Olympic champions, came second to win the silver medal with 41.45 seconds, while Great Britain won the bronze medal.
See the Jamaican team’s dirt bounce after their win.
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After qualifying for the Olympic 4×100 meter relay finals, which is set to run this Friday, August 6, sprint star Elaine Thompson-Herah was caught practicing her ‘dirt bounce’ moves, seemingly to nail the Dancehall dance should her team come out victors in the race tomorrow.
The Jamaican sprint team qualified for the women’s 4x100m relay finals at the Tokyo Olympic Games on Wednesday night. Anchored by recently awarded Olympic Bronze medalist Shericka Jackson, the relay team that included Briana Williams, Natasha Morrison, and Remona Burchell, finished in third place in the semi-finals with a season’s best at 42.15. Dina Asher-Smith of team Britain was first to the finish line, running a national record of 41.55 seconds and team USA came in second, running 41.90.
Elaine will join Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce to bolster the team’s speed for the upcoming finals. Herah, who became the first woman to win the 100m and 200m double Gold at consecutive Olympics, could snatch a third medal in the women’s relay.
The superstar sprinter was caught on camera looking pretty optimistic and confident laying down her moves to the ‘dirt bounce’ which was reportedly created by dancer Tyreke Pennicott and later made popular by Dancehall deejay Laa Lee via his viral songs Tip Inna It and later Dirt Bounce
Elaine shared the practice session on her Instagram Stories today and wrote, “Practicing my dirt move.”
Just yesterday, the Jamaican athlete took to Twitter to announce she had been blocked on Instagram for posting her 100 and 200-meter races, videos that she did not own the rights to. “So see y’all in 2 days,” she wrote.
A spokesperson for Facebook, which owns Instagram, released a statement that said the company had ‘mistakenly’ blocked Thompson-Herah from Instagram and though the videos were removed, they quickly restored her access.
According to the International Olympic Committee’s social and digital media guidelines, Olympic athletes at the Tokyo Games are able to share Olympic Games content on their personal social media accounts, with some restrictions. The committee said that the removal of unauthorized content on social media is automatic.
“Rights Holding Broadcasters (RHBs) have the exclusive rights to broadcast the Olympic Games,” the IOC told Reuters. “This includes distribution on social media, where athletes are invited to share the content provided by the RHBs on their accounts but cannot post-competition content natively. Should that occur, the removal of such content from social media platforms happens automatically.”