‘Fast, expensive … fancy’: How Sha’Carri Richardson revived her Olympic dream
The American sprinter was at rock bottom when a positive marijuana test ended her hopes before the Tokyo Olympics. She has reinvented herself since
“‘I’m a Bentley,” Sha’Carri Richardson says proudly at one point in Sprint, the fly-on-the-wall Netflix series that follows some of the world’s leading track stars. “Fast, expensive … fancy.” It shows how little she knows about cars.
Bentleys are all about subtlety. The amenities don’t intrude. The speed is hushed. They’re grand but never ostentatious. Richardson? She’s a Lamborghini: not just fast but abruptly so while, at the same time, loud and susceptible to spiralling out of control at any moment. But this latest edition of the Richardson is vastly more fine-tuned for her Olympic debut – on Friday, a do-over of sorts as she won her 100m heat comfortably.