Sha'Carri Richardson will make her Olympics debut as the fastest woman on Earth

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The 24-year-old powerhouse sprinter from Texas will make her debut for Team USA at the Olympics in Paris this summer, four years after a positive drug test crashed her first attempt at the Games.

Sha'Carri Richardson competes in the Women's 100 Meter on day 2 of the 2020 U.S. Olympic Track & Field Team Trials at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon.

Richardson qualified last week for the Paris Olympics 100 meter competition, finishing in a breakneck 10.71 seconds. But on Thursday, she took the next step in qualifying for the 200 meter race, placing first in her heat with a time of 21.99—the second fastest time in the world among women this year. The fastest woman this year is fellow American athlete McKenzie Long, who clocked times of 21.83 and 21.95 seconds running for Ole Miss to win at this month's NCAA Championships.

In the years since the controversy, Richardson has rededicated herself to the sport, winning the 100 meter title at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, which earned her the title of fastest woman in the world.

 

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