BUDAPEST, Hungary—Track, and fame, can be brutal games. Nobody felt that more over the past two years than American sprinter Sha'Carri Richardson. On a sultry Monday night a half-world away from where her problems began, the 23-year-old earned a gold medal at world championships in the biggest 100-meter race this side…
BUDAPEST, Hungary—Track, and fame, can be brutal games. Nobody felt that more over the past two years than American sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson., the 23-year-old earned a gold medal at world championships in the biggest 100-meter race this side of the Olympics.
Richardson said she soaked it all in, surrounded herself with supporters, tried to drown out the rest. A mere 70 minutes later, she was lining up on the edge of the track in Lane 9 for the gold-medal sprint, as tough a spot as there is because there’s no way to feel how the top contenders — or anyone, really — is doing.
in the race — in part because she was a rookie at worlds going against a field that had amassed 38 Olympic and world-championship medals between them. , she cruised to a win at trials two years ago. But that victory quickly came off the books after she tested positive for marijuana — a doping violation she readily admitted, saying she was in a bad place after the recent death of her mom.
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