BUDAPEST, Hungary Posing for the cameras, Grant Holloway counted out his back-to-back-to-back 110-meter hurdles world titles, raising one finger, then another, then another. It was as easy as “1, 2, 3." Holloway made his race look almost that simple, too. The American bolted to a fast start and never looked back Monday night at world championships,…
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 of the Olympics.
Two summers ago after Olympic trials, Sha'Carri Richardson’s road to the Tokyo Games was roadblocked by a positive test for marijuana. Now she's the gold medal winner in the biggest 100-meter race this side of the Olympics.
The 23-year-old outsprints a star-studded field in a meet-record 10.65 seconds to take a gold medal two years after a positive marijuana test derailed her Olympic dreams.
Sha’Carri Richardson came in first in the 100-meter finals at the 2023 World Championship in Budapest, Hungary. Her gold medal asserts her status as a track-and-field champion and makes her participation in the 2024 Paris Olympics all the more likely.