With her long orange hair and trademark long, multi-colored nails, Sha’Carri Richardson sprinted straight to her Olympic debut in Tokyo.
The 21-year-old won the women’s 100m at the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials with a time of 10.86 seconds, bursting into the lead in the final few meters.
She immediately ran up into the stands at the new Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon, for a long embrace with her grandmother.
“Emotionally — unbelievable,” she told NBC reporter Lewis Johnson, “the fact that I am an Olympian no matter what, a dream since I was young.