After a toe injury kept her out of competition for three consecutive meets, two-time Olympic 100 metre champion is set to return to action this weekend at the Prefontaine Classic in Oregon.
Her coach, Stephen Francis, in a television interview this week, said the 2012 Olympic gold medalist is back in training and will be ready to compete even though she might not be at
her best.
"She is training, albeit not as ideally as she would like, but she is back in training and has been for the last week and a half and she has to go to Prefontaine this weekend, so we'll see what happens,” Francis said in the interview.
He expects her to be closer to her best shape by mid-June when she is expected to compete at the Racer’s Grand Prix in Jamaica on June 11.
“It's just that she has a lot of pain when she does train, but now I think we have found a way around it and in another three to four weeks she will be ready to go."
The 2008 and 2012 Olympic champion is bidding to become the first woman to win the 100 metres title at three successive Games.
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