Pregnant Shelley-Ann Fraser-Pryce to miss World Athletics Championships
BBC
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Jamaica's reigning 100m world champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce will miss this summer's World Athletics Championships in London because she is pregnant.
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The two-time 100m Olympic gold medallist and three-time world champion plans to return to action in 2018.
The 30-year-old sprinter said she had hoped to defend her title in London.
"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," she added.