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Bolt backing Fraser-Pryce to win third Olympic 100m crown

Jamaica's Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce reacts after competing in the Women's 100m heats at the 2019 IAAF World Athletics Championships at the Khalifa International stadium in Doha on September 28, 2019. (AFP)

Usain Bolt believes the only person that can stop his fellow Jamaican Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce from winning a third Olympic 100 metres title at the Tokyo Games is herself.

Only Bolt, at the last three Olympics, has previously managed the feat so Fraser-Pryce would become the first woman to bag a hat-trick of 100m gold medals if she wins the final on July 31.

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