Sha'Carri Richardson will compete in the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris after winning the 100-meter final on June 22.
CNN reported that she ran to first place at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon, officially securing her spot on the U.S. Olympic team.
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Sha'Carri qualifies for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris
Not only did her girl win, but the 24-year-old also ran the fastest 100-meter time in the world this year – 10.71. The track star's training partners also qualified for the Olympic Games in Paris. Melissa Jefferson and Tanisha Terry took second and third place.
During Sha'Carri's semifinal race on Friday, June 21, her start was a little slow and shaky, but that didn't stop her from passing the other runners. She also secured her first place spot with an untied shoelace. Richardson posted a time of 10.86, qualifying for Saturday's competition.
She told USA TODAY: “This time I feel like it was more – I'm definitely still confident, still my exciting, normal self, but even more of an overwhelming feeling of joy.”
She further stated that the victory was “confirmed the year we had been training for. We have been preparing for this moment; now we have come full circle.”
She announced that she “I am grateful and appreciative and beyond excited to build and grow on this momentum we have already achieved. It is beyond exciting to continue with my girls. We didn't warn the world, the world already knew… We knew that if we put our minds, bodies and souls into it, this moment could be possible.”
Sha'Carri's victory follows a remarkable year in 2023, when she broke the women's 100-meter record with a time of 10.65 at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary. In addition, she won a bronze medal in the 200-meter dash and a second gold medal with the American 4×100 relay team.
As The Shade Room previously reported, she was disqualified from the 2021 Tokyo Olympics after testing positive for marijuana. Sha'Carri's comeback is definitely one for the record books! Congratulations, girl!
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