A few puffs and a bad rule do Richardson in Today 06:26 am JST Today | 07:07 am JST Sha Carri Richardson Photo: AP file NEW YORK
She could have make that should have been a breakout star in an Olympics desperate for any kind of positive jolt. Sha Carri Richardson has the look and she has the goods, and it wasn’t out of the question to picture her walking around Tokyo with a pair of gold medals draped around her neck.
That it won’t happen is as much Richardson’s fault as it is the doing of arcane doping rules. A few puffs of marijuana wouldn’t have helped her win the 100-meter race at the Tokyo Olympics, but they were enough to get her booted from the U.S. team even before it was officially named.
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