Richardson posted a simple picture of herself in the car and followed it up with a painted Paris Olympics portrait of herself placed in her grandmother’s (Big Momma) museum, which she captioned: “A beautiful piece of art.”
The sprint queen’s performances since the Paris Olympics resulted in a rollercoaster phase, after claiming the 100m silver medal and running a great anchor leg to power Team USA to the 4x100m gold medal.
With mixed emotions about not winning the 100m title in her Olympic debut, Richardson returned to the Diamond League circuit in Zurich by getting a deserved victory over the newly crowned Olympic champion c, hence reinstated her position as still the woman to beat and her Paris loss was just a one-off situation.Both women returned for a final dance at the Brussels Diamond League, where Richardson surprisingly finished eighth in the race in 11.23s, and left many questioning if she was injured. Following the disappointment, she withdrew from the scheduled 200m final with no specific reasons given and ended her racing activities for the year.
Ever since, the world 100m champion in Budapest last year has been off media visibility on her social platforms or had a major appearance at gatherings and events, and her only public function was the honouring ceremony by the Dallas ISD Board of Trustees to officially name the John Kincaide Stadium as the Sha’Carri Richardson Track.
In one of the greatest performances in athletics history, Kenya’s Ruth Chepngetich has become the first female ever to run a sub-2:10, after clocking 2:09:57 to win the women’s category at the Chicago Marathon.
Chepngetich ran 64:16-65:41 split to obliterate the previous world record held by Ethiopia’s Tigst Assefa at 2:11:53, which is an astonishing 1 minute, 56 seconds faster, thus making the Kenyan the first woman in history under 2:10.
In addition, she finished 10th place overall in the men’s and women’s categories combined, hence speaking great volumes on how groundbreaking her feat was in Chicago.
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