Shelly Ann Fraser-Pryce free to compete

World and Olympic 100 metre champion Shelly Ann Fraser-Pryce is now free to compete after her six month ban for a doping violation expired on January 7.

Fraser-Pryce, who got married on January 8 this year, says she feels no pressure to defend her title at the World Championships in Daegu, South Korea, this summer. 

“Now it’s a new year, so I said ‘ok I was the world champion in 2009, I want to be double world champion’. This is something I have never gotten before, I don’t think about 2009, I have won that already, it has gone this is a new year, a new title,” she said.

Fraser, who fell victim to the relatively new "no false start rule" last season, also expressed disagreement with the rule.

“To say one false start-out, there are so many things that can happen on that line, you can flip, you can have so many mishaps so I think it’s a little bit trivial,” she said.

Fraser-Pryce says she will open her season at the Queens/Grace Jackson meet set for January 29 at the UWI Bowl.