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Julien Alfred achieved a remarkable feat for St Lucia when she won the women’s 100m gold medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, marking the island’s first-ever Olympic medal.
The Caribbean island nation of St. Lucia, home to less than 200,000 people, has sent athletes to seven previous Olympic Games but has never taken home a medal.
Alfred achieved a new national record and defeated world champion Sha’Carri Richardson and her American partner Melissa Jefferson in a thrilling race in pouring rain.
The government arranged the celebrations so that the eager public could support their heroine and guarantee that this momentous occasion would be widely accessible.
The moment, as seen in Vieux Fort
— Hunter (@Werekdalcott) August 3, 2024
Our Champion, Julien Alfred 🥇 pic.twitter.com/xtVPtuK9Bu
Alfred took the time to reflect on her win and thanked herself for believing in herself.
“It feels amazing,”
“Waking up this morning, I wrote it down: ‘Julian Alfred, Olympic champion.’ So I think believing in myself and trusting that I could do it is what really mattered to me.”
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