Sha’Carri Richardson Explains Why She Didn’t Participate in the Olympic Relay: “We Had the Confidence and the Faith”
Days after Richardson took home a silver medal in the 100-meter final, the sprinter’s anchor leg helped Team USA win the 4 x 100-meter relay.
Sha’Carri Richardson concurs that the Louvre, or at least a location where she can view it, should house the famous photo from the moment she looked down her rivals in the middle of the 4 x 100m relay during the Paris Summer Olympics.
In an interview with Refinery29, Richardson, 24, stated, “I might have to hang it in my home.”
The Texas sprinter, who earned recognition for her “Sha’Carri Stare,” is now providing context for the widely recognized side-eye. She used it to come from behind on the relay’s anchor leg and win the gold for Team USA.
“I looked over and I just knew that no matter what was going on, there was nobody that I was going to allow — even myself — to be in front of me,” Richardson stated to the media. “I wasn’t going to even allow myself to not cross that finish line in first place and not get that medal, or to let down those ladies and the support that we received when it comes to us crossing the finish line, in first place as Team USA.”
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Richardson thought the team had a strong chance of taking first place even though they were running in fourth place behind Gabby Thomas, Melissa Jefferson, and Twanisha Terry, the 200-meter gold medallist.
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