THREE-TIME World 100-metre champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce will not be in London this summer to defend her 100-metre title as she is pregnant with her first child.
Her manager Bruce James confirmed to SportsMax.TV that the two-time Olympic 100-metre champion will be a mother later this year.

“She is quite pregnant,” James said in response to queries from Sportsmax.TV Wednesday.
The 30-year-old sprinter also confirmed her condition on social media yesterday. “All my focus heading into training for my 2017 season was on getting healthy and putting myself in the best possible fitness to successfully defend my title in London 2017,” she posted on her Facebook page.

“But life is filled with many blessings with God. So here I am thinking about being the greatest mother I can be with my biggest blessing and the promise God made me. Moving forward on this journey, I look forward to seeing you all in 2018 when I return to competition on the tracks and around the world.”
Sportsmax.TV had been informed that in recent weeks that the sprint icon had been periodically absent from training.

James confirmed that the pregnancy was partially responsible but that it was part of an overall plan to resolve the issues with an injured big toe and her pursuit of further Olympic glory at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan.
“We decided since we are doing the toe thing, we might as well do everything at one time,” James said emphasising that Fraser-Pryce will not be available for Jamaica’s team to the 2017 IAAF World Athletic Championships in London in August.
“That physically can’t happen,” he said.

Fraser-Pryce is one of the most successful female sprinters in history. She won consecutive Olympic 100-metre titles in 2008 and 2012. She failed in her bid to win three consecutive titles when she competed in Rio in 2016 due mainly to Sesamoiditis of her big toe.
She won bronze.
She is also a three-time World Champion in the 100m – 2009, 2013, and 2015. She also won the 200m world title in Moscow 2013 when she became the first female sprinter to win the sprint treble – 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay.

She is the second member of Jamaica’s famous 1-2-2 finish at the 2008 Olympic Games venturing into motherhood. Silver medallist Sherone Simpson gave birth to a daughter in late 2016.