JAAA was not providing enough support for local athletes – Fraser Pryce

Double sprint world champion Shelly Ann Fraser Pryce said she would go it alone if necessary, after Usain Bolt revealed he would not go to the extent of refusing to run, if Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA)  officials don't speak up for athletes.

Fraser-Pryce who said she felt hurt by recent comments made by a Jamaican doping official to the BBC, also said she feels the JAAA was not providing enough broad-based support for local athletes.

Bolt support or not, the 2013 IAAF Female Athlete of the Year says she is standing by her threat of not running at major events if things don't improve.

“So this is the hard part; think because it is an individual sport a lot of them (athletes) are so afraid to step up, to say that they will do this, because they are afraid of the backlash or they are afraid of what persons will say or say they do not want to do that. But you have athletes before us in the 1980s and the 1990s who because of stuff that they did, we are here today doing the things that we do,” Fraser-Pryce commented.