Her mother Maxime, one of a family of fourteen, had been an athlete herself as a young girl but, like so many other girls in Waterhouse, had to stop after she had her first baby.

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It didn't take long for Shelly-Ann to realize that sports could be her way out of Waterhouse.

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She grew up in one of jamaica's toughest inner-city communities known as Waterhouse, where she lived in a one-room apartment, sleeping four in a bed with her mother and two brothers.

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She plans to start a foundation for homeless children and wants to build a community centre in Waterhouse.

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The night she won olympic gold in Beijing, the routine murders in Waterhouse and the drug wars in the neighbouring streets stopped.

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Waterhouse, one of the poorest communities in jamaica, is a really violent and overpopulated place.

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