<p>Paris: Jamaica's world champion Shericka Jackson withdrew from the 200 metres at the Paris Olympics on Sunday, less than a month after she suffered an injury at a tune-up meet in Hungary.</p><p>Jackson did not run the 100 metres in Paris saying her injury played a part in her decision.</p><p><a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/sports/olympics-2024-latest-news-updates-paris-games-day-9-schedule-updates-august-4-lakshya-sen-lovlina-borgohain-sailing-badminton-boxing-athletics-hockey-golf-shooting-3136153">Follow live updates on Olympics here</a></p><p>Jackson's withdrawal comes a day after Jamaica's three-times Olympic champion Shelly-Anne Fraser-Pryce pulled out of the women's 100m with an injury.</p>.Olympics 2024: Swimmer Walsh dedicates US relay world record to disqualified sister.<p>At last year's world championship in Budapest, Jackson clocked a scorching 21.41 to capture her second consecutive world title in the distance and narrowly miss breaking the world record of 21.34 set by the late Florence Griffith-Joyner in 1988.</p><p>But Jackson, who has never won an individual Olympic gold medal, has not been at her best this season, clocking times about a second slower than her world championship run. </p>
<p>Paris: Jamaica's world champion Shericka Jackson withdrew from the 200 metres at the Paris Olympics on Sunday, less than a month after she suffered an injury at a tune-up meet in Hungary.</p><p>Jackson did not run the 100 metres in Paris saying her injury played a part in her decision.</p><p><a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/sports/olympics-2024-latest-news-updates-paris-games-day-9-schedule-updates-august-4-lakshya-sen-lovlina-borgohain-sailing-badminton-boxing-athletics-hockey-golf-shooting-3136153">Follow live updates on Olympics here</a></p><p>Jackson's withdrawal comes a day after Jamaica's three-times Olympic champion Shelly-Anne Fraser-Pryce pulled out of the women's 100m with an injury.</p>.Olympics 2024: Swimmer Walsh dedicates US relay world record to disqualified sister.<p>At last year's world championship in Budapest, Jackson clocked a scorching 21.41 to capture her second consecutive world title in the distance and narrowly miss breaking the world record of 21.34 set by the late Florence Griffith-Joyner in 1988.</p><p>But Jackson, who has never won an individual Olympic gold medal, has not been at her best this season, clocking times about a second slower than her world championship run. </p>