The world can no longer Dafne Schippers it. After yesterday, the 23-year-old Utrecht officially the second fastest woman on earth. Overjoyed she came shortly after the start gun fast Jamaican Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce crossed the finish line of the Bird’s Nest.
Dafne Schippers next winner Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Photo:. ANP
“I knew after the semifinals that I could just run faster than I did,” said Schippers after winning the silver medal in the 100 meters at the athletics World Championships. “In the warm-up, everything went super good for my doing. I knew it was possible. Stood there with so much confidence. I had exactly the race in my head how to do it, and I’ve done it exactly like that. In the last thirty, forty meters I felt I was getting closer to Shelly-Ann. I guess I needed a few more meters to overtake her, but that does not matter now. I have made such great strides and I must now work to start. I just got a silver medal! “
Schippers also found it” super nice “that she grabbed the silver as the only white woman in the final field. “I know that the sprinters advance in the call room generally do not often look at Europeans, but I do now. It is super nice that you can fight against these dark girls, you can join in as white. I’ve never seen the difference yourself. And of course I did not have the best leaders in the white world “, referring Schippers doping sinners from the former Eastern Bloc. “I think I’m proof that it is possible to run as fast as white sprinter.”
Doping
On her new status as a world star sticks at this time that there are people automatically who look at her askance and she is confronted with questions about doping. “I say bring on those questions. I know I’m one hundred percent clean. Someone may simply have talent. I get there just very angry. “
But yesterday prevailed above all the festivities. “I think my phone no longer works for the congratulations. I try not to waste too much energy there, how much positive energy there is in those nice attention. Now I have just come back to earth. That I managed it. I will not let you completely. I have to go another 200 meters. “
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