Elaine Thompson-Herah, world record the buzz of Birmingham; Diamond League TV info

Last year, Elaine Thompson-Herah staked her claim as the greatest female sprinter in history by sweeping the Olympic 100m and 200m for a second time. This year, many are wondering whether she will break Florence Griffith-Joyner‘s 100m world record, though the Jamaican has made it clear it is not her focus.

Thompson-Herah races her first Diamond League meet of the year in Birmingham, Great Britain on Saturday (9 a.m. ET, CNBC, NBCSports.com/live, the NBC Sports app and Peacock).

Maybe it’s too early in the season for Thompson-Herah to target Griffith-Joyner’s world record from the 1988 U.S. Olympic Trials of 10.49 seconds, which has been scrutinized over a potentially faulty wind reading of 0.0 on an otherwise blustery day in Indianapolis.

But the talk has been there since last summer, when Thompson-Herah ran consecutive personal bests in the Olympic final (10.61 seconds into a headwind) and then at the Pre Classic in Eugene, Oregon (10.54, the second-best time in history).

On her arm is a tattoo that reads in cursive, “Nothing is impossible. Even the word impossible says, ‘I’m Possible.'”

In an interview published last month, Thompson-Herah told World Athletics that she believes the world championships this summer, also in Eugene, are an opportunity to break the 34-year-old record.

“I have run two PBs on that track,” she said then, noting a 10.84 in 2015, though that was at the old Hayward Field.

Later in the same answer, Thompson-Herah braked.

“I will not put the world championship on the spot and say I’m going to break the record on the world championship day,” she said. “If it takes two years, five years, I will still try to break it, but I will not apply any pressure to myself because the work has to continue. I