Olympic champion sprinter Shelly-Ann Fraser couldn't hide her overjoy on Jamaica's medals sweep in the eye-catching women's 100-meter race Sunday night at the Beijing Olympic Games.

Fraser, who clocked her personal best in 10.78 seconds in the final, saw fellow Jamaican Sherone Simpson and Kerron Stewart closely following up as she was crossing the finish line.

"Oh my God! That is too much," the gold medalist said after the race. "That was the moment, I wouldn't trade it for anything else."

The followers Simpson and Stewart both dashed in 10.98 seconds, sharing the Olympic silver.

Claiming to be inspired by Usain Bolt, the world's fastest man also from Jamaica who sliced last night the men's 100m world record by three hundredths of a second to a stunning 9.69, the Caribbean girls sank the U.S. fleet consisting of three hot candidates for the women's title, Lauryn Williams, Muna Lee and Torri Edwards.

The upset U.S. Olympians complained later in chorus the mistake of letting a false start go in the finals.

Edwards, who not long ago clocked the season's best in the Olympic gold-equalling 10.78 seconds but finished last in the race tonight, acknowledged a false start by herself and expected a recall.

She said, "I moved a little bit - my foot - at the start. There was no call back, so I went. I'm disappointed. I wanted at least one American to get up there."

Probably feeling guilty, Edwards hardly benefited from her quickest reaction time of 0.149 second among all finalists.

Estimating a call-back, the Olympics-ambitious Lee suffered the most. Striving for the fifth place after the slowest 0.234-second reaction time, Lee said, "I've never had a bad start like that ever."

Anyway, Fraser would be the unquestionable winner taking no advantage of the possible mistake. She started 0.190 second after the gun fired, surely a lackluster start before her personal best-achieving victory.

Born sprinters in their blood and soul, as commented by a Jamaican team doctor, both men and women sprinters from the tiny isle were capable enough to win the game after whatever starts.

Notoriously bad starter, Bolt smashed the world record last night and won the Olympic gold, even with a 0.165-second beginning.

Fraser said, "This is a crazy Bolt effect. I wanted to come out and do the same thing."

Stewart said, "I don't know if I should cry, smile, jump. I think this is a fabulous thing for the three of us to win the medals and for Jamaica to get one, two, three. What else can you say?"

Simpson said, "We made history. We are all great athletes and I'm very excited about the tremendous achievement we've made for our country."

"Today's victory boosts my confidence to win the 200m. We will also do well in the 4x100m. I believe we can beat the Americans."

American Williams, who finished the fourth in a 0.05 second disadvantage to the bronze medalist, said Jamaicans were strong competitors. "We've dominated for years, and now it's their time."

But she still had hope on America's winning the team play. "Definitely we have a strong team, we are mentally tough, we're not going to take this lying down," she said.

Roughly one day later, the Jamaican women replayed the legend created by Bolt on the same track in the Olympic main venue, which was surely not the end of their gold rush in Beijing. They are replacing Americans for dominating sprints.

Source:Xinhua