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"I just want to go back to St. Lucia and celebrate" - Julien Alfred shares plans of heading home to relish Paris Olympics 2024 success

Modified Sep 04, 2024 14:38 GMT

Women's 100m Olympic champion, Julien Alfred, recently shared her plans after the conclusion of the Diamond League season (on September 14th). This comes just a day before her participation in the Zurich Diamond League meet scheduled to be held on September 5 (Thursday).

Speaking at a press conference before the Zurich event, Alfred said she is looking to go back to her native place and celebrate her Paris Olympics victory with her native people. She stated (via Wanda Diamond League):

"Yeah, I'm going to go back home. I haven't got a chance to celebrate with my country as yet and to see the youth of my country. So, I really just want to go back to St. Lucia and celebrate with them and maybe go for a vacation after that."

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The Zurich event will be Alfred's first track and field event after her historic outing at the French capital. In the Zurich Diamond League meet, Alfred will compete in the 100m event where she will compete against some known faces such as Sha'Carri Richardson, Tia Clayton, Daryll Neita, and Marie-Josee Ta-Lou Smith.

The Saint Lucian sprinter will also be featuring in the Brussels Diamond League meet scheduled between September 13-14 where she will again face her American counterpart, Richardson.

Julien Alfred clinched two medals at the 2024 Paris Olympics

Julien Alfred at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris (Image via Getty)

Competing in the first quadrennial event of his career, 23-year-old Julien Alfred scripted history as she became the first ever to clinch a medal for her native country of Saint Lucia.

Alfred clinched the gold medal in the Women's 100m event after defeating the fan favorite, Sha'Carri Richardson. The Sanit Lucian track and field athlete registered a national record run time in the event finals (10.72 seconds) to clinch the top-podium finish.

After an impressive outing in the 100m individual event, Julien Alfred produced a similar performance over the 200m distance. The Ciceron native clinched a silver medal finish after registering a run time of 22.08 seconds.

She missed out on an opportunity to end her 2024 Paris Olympics campaign with double gold medals as she fell short by a margin of 0.25 seconds and finished behind United States sprinter Gabby Thomas.