Jamaica's Alia S. Atkinson on her way to victory in the 100m breaststroke at the Fina/airweave Swimming World Cup in Singapore yesterday, November 18, 2017. Photo: CMC

Atkinson, who achieved the 50m and 100m breaststroke double on the Beijing, China, leg will again be attempting to repeat the feat when she takes on the field in the 50m sprint today, despite the injury concerns.

The 28-year-old reportedly suffered a dislocated left shoulder in the individual medley (IM) in the Beijing, China, leg as she transitioned from the backstroke to the breaststroke portion, when the humerus popped out of the glenoid.

Despite being slipped back in, the pain continued to linger and as such Atkinson was instructed to rest the joint. However, like the determined 'darling of the pool' she is, Atkinson rejected that option and decided to press her way through the last two clusters of the World Cup.

But she did not have things all her way, as her manager took the necessary precautions and withdrew the imposing swimmer from the butterfly and individual medley (IM) event which require much greater stress on the shoulder muscle.

As such, Atkinson was left to contest the 50m and 100m breaststroke, and she duly obliged in the latter yesterday to rebound from her second-place finish on the previous leg in Tokyo, Japan.

In Japan, she was beaten into second with a time of 1:04.15 by Russian rival Yuliya Efimova, who clocked 1:03.90. (CMC)