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A tough week for American sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson ended with a slender miss of the 200-meter ultimate on Sunday at the USA monitor and area championships in Eugene, Oregon.
Only a week in the past, Richardson was arrested on a cost of fourth-degree home violence for allegedly assaulting her boyfriend, fellow sprinter Christian Coleman, at Seattle-Tacoma Worldwide Airport.
Richardson was booked into South Correctional Entity (SCORE) in Des Moines, Washington, for greater than 18 hours as a substitute of doing what she wanted to arrange for the largest week in monitor and area throughout the nation.
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Sha’Carri Richardson competes within the semifinals of the ladies’s 200 meters throughout day 4 of the USATF Out of doors & Para Nationwide Championships at Hayward Subject in Eugene on Aug. 3, 2025. (IMAGN)
She went on to compete within the 100-meter opening spherical, however later withdrew from the occasion. However whereas Richardson has an automated bid on the earth championships subsequent month in Tokyo, Japan, because the defending champion of the race, she didn’t have the identical luxurious within the 200.
Richardson ended fourth in her warmth after operating the 200-meter dash in 22.56 seconds. The highest two finishers of every warmth advance in addition to the subsequent three quickest occasions. Madison Whyte simply barely beat out Richardson after operating 22.55 seconds in the identical warmth.
SHA’CARRI RICHARDSON ARRESTED FOR ALLEGED ASSAULT OF BOYFRIEND DAYS BEFORE US CHAMPIONSHIPS
Richardson, who gained bronze on this occasion on the 2023 world championships, was operating her first 200 meters this season.
As for the alleged home violence incident, Richardson is being accused of grabbing Coleman’s backpack, yanking on it and shoving him right into a wall, which was all apparently caught on video surveillance.
Sha’Carri Richardson competes within the first spherical of the ladies’s 100-meter sprint throughout day one of many USATF Out of doors & Para Nationwide Championships at Hayward Subject in Eugene on July 31, 2025. (IMAGN)
Richardson appeared to toss stuff at Coleman, which TSA indicated could have been headphones, based on The Related Press.
“I used to be informed Coleman didn’t need take part any additional within the investigation and declined to be a sufferer,” an officer wrote of their police report.
That is Richardson’s second identified public airport incident after she was beforehand kicked off a aircraft in January 2023 after a dispute with a flight attendant who she stated spoke to her in a disrespectful method.
The 25-year-old additionally made world headlines after testing constructive for hashish earlier than the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, the place she accepted a one-month suspension by the USA Anti-Doping Company, making her ineligible to run within the 100-meter race. She wasn’t chosen to the 4×100-meter relay crew both, which delayed her Olympic debut till this previous 12 months in Paris.
Sha’Carri Richardson rests after the semifinals of the ladies’s 200 meters throughout day 4 of the USATF Out of doors & Para Nationwide Championships at Hayward Subject in Eugene on Aug. 3, 2025. (IMAGN)
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Richardson gained the 100-meter race in Budapest on the 2023 world championships, however she completed with silver within the occasion in Paris. She did, nevertheless, win gold as a part of the 4×100 relay crew.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
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Scott Thompson is a sports activities author for Fox Information Digital.
