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Sprinter Sha Carri Richardson, who was suspended last week after a positive test for marijuana, was not put on the U.S. s Olympic 4x100 relay team, ending her chances to complete in the Tokyo Games later this month.
USA Track & Field released the roster on Tuesday evening. Richardson, 21, won the 100 meter race at the U.S. Olympic trials in June, but her victory was vacated after her positive test; marijuana is on the World Anti-Doping Agency s banned list, and on Friday, the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency suspended her for 30 days. Because of the suspension, she is not allowed to compete in the 100 meter race at the Tokyo Olympics.
It was just chaos, Jones said.
Jones continued the celebration Thursday night with the best game in her five-year career. And a bloody nose.
Jones scored 22 of her 34 points in the first half to tie the franchise record for most points in a regulation game. She added seven rebounds and three steals in the Sun s 86-80 win over the pesky Indiana Fever at Indiana Farmers Coliseum. It s crazy that I went from coming off the bench to now I m starting and now I m an all-star, Jones said earlier Thursday. It’s crazy to think about. I still don t think it s sunk in all the way. I m excited.
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Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei has not ruled out a world record in the 3,000 metres he will run at the conclusion of a talent-stacked World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting in Ostrava.
Cheptegei is one of six world record-holders at the Golden Spike meeting at the Městský Stadion, having set new marks of 12min 35.36sec and 26:11.00 for 5,000 and 10,000 metres last year. I believe it’s not untouchable, he said at the pre-event media conference when asked about the mark of 7:20.67 set by Kenya’s Daniel Komen in 1996. Seven twenty is not easy it’s one of the hardest records and that’s why it’s not been broken for the past 25 years, but I’ll run as fast as long as my legs will carry me.
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