Tokyo Olympic triple gold medalist Elaine Thompson-Herah has dispelled reports that emerged on Thursday that she is leaving the MVP Track Club.

The reports emerged after weeks of speculation and rumour that the sprinter, who became the fastest woman alive following her 10.54 seconds 100m clocking in Oregon on August 21, was moving on following a breakdown of the relationship between herself and the world-famous coach, Stephen Francis.

However, in an interview with Michael Holley and Michael Smith on the Brother from Another show on NBC Sports, Thompson-Herah said the reports were just rumour.

“I am the fastest woman alive so they are going to create some sort of news to distract the world so it’s rumours of course. I have seen articles in the media that I have died before, more than once. There are always rumours in the media, they are always targeting me, I don’t know why,” she said, explaining that her absence from pre-season training might have been behind the rumours.

“It’s probably because I didn’t show up at practice. I am still on my rest period, so maybe they are just speculating why I am not at practice, but I just came back from the international circuit and we normally get like a month’s rest and I am in my second week.”

Thompson-Herah, the 2016 Olympic 100 and 200m champion set the athletics world alight during the summer when she won the 100m in an Olympic record 10.61 and the 200m in 21.53 at the Tokyo Olympics. She won a third gold as a member of Jamaica’s 4x100m relay team that set a national record of 41.02.

After the Games, she ran times of 10.54, 10.64, 10.72 and 10.65 on her way to winning the 2021 100m Diamond League title and became the first woman to run four wind-legal times under 10.70.

Despite her success under Coach Francis, word on the ground was that the athlete was not happy with her coach and they had not spoken for months. This prompted her decision to move on to be coached by her husband Derron Herah in the coming season.