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[ad_1] PARIS: Former triple jump world champion Teddy Tamgho on Friday said he would return to athletics to compete at his home Olympics next year in Paris. The 33-year-old, who won the world title in 2013 in Moscow, has been retired for four years. "I think it's time, high time to put the spikes back on," France's Tamgho wrote on Instagram. "High time to prepare for Paris 2024. I've trained... and by testing myself for some time, I realised that the legs were still ready, ready to jump far, ready to win THE medal (the only one I'm looking for)." Tamgho became only the third man to break the 18-metre mark when he leapt 18.04m to win world gold. He also set the world indoor record with 17.92m in Paris in 2011. But Tamgho has never competed at the Olympics, missing the London Games 11 years ago due to a right ankle operation. He also served a ban imposed by the French athletics federation for assaulting a female amateur athlete in 2011.

[ad_1] KINGSTON: Shericka Jackson threw down the gauntlet with a personal best and world-leading 10.65 seconds, the fifth-fastest ever, as she retained her women's 100m title at the Jamaican championships on Friday. Jackson, who won the silver medal at last year's World Championships in Oregon, is tied with American Marion Jones for fifth on the all-time list and eclipsed the previous fastest time of the year, the 10.71 set American Sha'Carrie Richardson at the US championships on Thursday. With Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, who did not compete in Kingston, holding a wild card as defending world champion, Jamaica will have four runners in the event at the World Championships in Budapest in August. Jackson won in a legal wind of 1.0m/sec while Shashalee Forbes ran a new personal best 10.96 for second place and Natasha Morrison was third in 10.98. Two time Olympic sprint double champion Elaine Thompson-Herah was fifth in 11.06 seconds. Relative unknown Rohan Watson