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Why Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, with three Olympic golds, loves the Bollywood song ‘Nimbooda Nimbooda’ | Sport-others News

Why Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, with three Olympic golds, loves the Bollywood song ‘Nimbooda Nimbooda’ | Sport-others News

Being the absolute Track & Field royalty, that Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is, with her 10 World Championship titles and three Olympic golds spanning Beijing 2008, London 2012 and Tokyo 2021, must have involved razor-sharp focus and tunnel vision of her running lane. But there were silly capers along the way, while she trained monkishly for her sprints. Camped in Pune for the Bajaj City Marathon as brand ambassador over the weekend, the world’s greatest woman athlete with elite medals over 15 years, recalls an obscure Indian associative memory from her school days, breaking into a proper jig at the hotel lobby. It must’ve been a silly scramble of words for her, uttered very fast at her annual day – but she decided at that moment that Indians were gifted in movement, and danced beautifully when happy. Fraser-Pryce mouths the words and the interluding drum-beats, dancing along merrily to the Ismail Darbar-Kavita Krishnamurti ditty ‘Nimbooda, Nimbooda, Nimbooda’ from Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam. “I had an ethnic Indian classmate back in school, and she wore this saree …

Triple Olympic Champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Wins Parent’s 100m Race During Son’s Sports Day – Watch

Triple Olympic Champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Wins Parent’s 100m Race During Son’s Sports Day – Watch

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce in the school parent’s race© X (Twitter) It wasn’t the Olympic final but Jamaican sprint legend Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce’s competitive edge remained intact as she stormed to victory in the parents’ 100m race during her son Zyon’s sports day, leaving fellow mums to chase her shadow. In a video that has gone viral, the triple Olympic champion was also seen stepping on to the line and doing some warm-up exercises before the ‘real’ event in her son’s school, even as fellow mums geared up for the race. Asked why she took part in the competition, the 38-year-old said, “Yes, why not. I’m a parent. It said parent race so I showed up for the parent race. 🇯🇲Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce was GONEpic.twitter.com/99W4a3oceB — Travis Miller (@travismillerx13) April 16, 2025 “Honestly I wasn’t planning on running. But then my son and my husband didn’t show up like we planned. So I had to show up “They haven’t banned me yet so I’m at the line,” Fraser-Pryce, who won back-to-back 100m Olympic titles in …

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce brings Olympic speed to son’s sports day | Sport-others News

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce brings Olympic speed to son’s sports day | Sport-others News

Participants in the parents’ 100m race at a school in Jamaica were on the receiving end of some unfair competition as they had to share the track with arguably the greatest female runner in the history of track and field. Triple Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce stepped on to the line during her son’s Zyon’s sports day on Wednesday and blitzed the field comprising fellow mothers. Footage on Instagram showed the 38-year-old, who climbed an Olympic podium no less than eight times, ran in the middle lane and finished more than four seconds ahead of the field. 8x Olympic medalist 🇯🇲Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce DEMOLISHING everyone in a parents race at her son’s school 🤣 (🎥 _suediamond/IG) pic.twitter.com/EVgpmBQJa5 — Travis Miller (@travismillerx13) April 16, 2025 Though the result of the race was no surprise, given that Fraser-Pryce is the third-fastest woman in history, it showed her commitment to be at events important for her son. She had pulled off a similar win in the same event in 2023. Story continues below this ad The legend took the race …