Sha’Carri Richardson: Not back, better
Sha’Carri Richardson EDDIE PELLS | AP National Writer 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, Aug. 21, a half-world away from where her problems began, the 23- year-old Dallas native and lesbian earned a gold medal at world championships in the biggest 100-meter race this side of the Olympics.
Her victory, in 10.65 seconds over Jamaicans Shericka Jackson and five-time world champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, capped a comeback two years in the making and made good on the mantra she’s been reciting all year — and repeated yet again after her latest victory: “I’m not back.
I’m better.” Two summers ago after Olympic trials in Eugene, Ore., Richardson’s road to the Tokyo Games was roadblocked by a positive test for marijuana.
