Track, and fame, can be brutal games. Nobody felt that more over the past two years than Sha'Carri Richardson.
Track, and fame, can be brutal games. Nobody felt that more over the past two years than American sprinter Sha'Carri Richardson.
Richardson said she soaked it all in, surrounded herself with supporters, tried to drown out the rest. In that semifinal, Richardson got off to a wretched start and had to rally from seventh to finish third in 10.84. Her time was the fastest among all non-qualifiers, so she made it to the final. Though Richardson came in 2-0 against Jackson in head-to-head matchups this year, she was still a 5-1 underdog 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.
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