While the Summer Olympic Games take the worldwide center stage beginning July 23, the fastest female sprinter in the United States will be sitting at home. She might even be hitting the bong. At this point, what does it matter?
What’s done is done for Sha’Carri Richardson, the Texas sprinter who blew away the field at the U.S. Olympic Trials last month. But she will not make the trip to Tokyo as part of Team USA because she smoked a little weed, she said, to help her deal with the death of her biological mother.
Richardson, to her credit, owned up to her spliff up, err, slip up, on NBC’s Today Show on Tuesday, the same day the U.