Three years ago, she won this race, too, only to see the victory stripped because of a positive marijuana test.
EUGENE, Ore. — Two steps before she reached the finish line, Sha’Carri Richardson started pounding her chest.
She was .09 seconds ahead of training partner Melissa Jefferson, the 2022 U.S. champion. Another sprinter in coach Dennis Mitchell’s camp, Twanisha Terry, finished third and also earned a spot on the women’s 100-meter team. That’s when the hard work began. What emerged, Richardson said, was a better and more in-tune person than the one who lit up this same Hayward Field back in 2021 — her orange hair flowing, looking like this sport’s breakout star.Sha’Carri Richardson bites down on her gold medal after winning the women’s 100m at the U.S. track trials on Saturday.It took nearly two years for the results to show up on the track again.
Back in the U.S., the Americans are feeding off each other, and Mitchell, a huge name in sprinting in the 1990s, pulled off a rarity by placing all three of his best sprinters in the Olympics.
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