{"id":311549,"date":"2025-08-02T09:20:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T09:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/311549\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T09:20:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T09:20:15","slug":"shacarri-richardson-withdraws-from-100-but-opts-back-in-for-200m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/311549\/","title":{"rendered":"Sha’Carri Richardson withdraws from 100, but opts back in for 200m"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sha\u2019Carri Richardson<\/strong><\/a>‘s USA Track & Field Championships 2025<\/strong> appeared to be over after just one race.<\/p>\n

The 2023 world champion and reigning Olympic silver medallist in the 100m clocked a season’s best<\/a> 11.07 in first-round action Thursday (31 July) at the iconic Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon, but withdrew from semi-finals in both that event and Sunday’s 200m earlier on Friday (1 August).<\/p>\n

But as the women’s 100 semi-finals and finals proceeded throughout the day without her, Richardson had a change of heart: She was back in the field for the women’s 200.<\/p>\n

News had broken<\/a> on Friday that Richardson had been arrested for an alleged domestic violence incident Sunday (27 July) at the Seattle airport. The 25-year-old was booked into the South Correctional Entity (SCORE) in Des Moines, Washington, at 6:54 p.m. Sunday and released Monday at 1:13 p.m, according to the AP.<\/p>\n

USA Track & Field issued the following statement: “USATF is aware of the reports and is not commenting on this matter.”<\/p>\n

It was not immediately clear if Richardson’s withdrawal in Eugene correllated with the news of the arrest.<\/p>\n

But as track<\/a> fans wondered if they’d see if the American superstar will head to the World Athletics Championships<\/strong> in September in Tokyo by utilising her 2023 world champion bye in the 100, she put her name back in the running – literally – for the 200.<\/p>\n

Richardson has only raced twice this year in the lead-up to the U.S. Championships, and said she had been hampered by a February injury that set her training back.<\/p>\n

She explained Thursday after her prelims race what meant the most to her to race again: “Being able to compete; feeling healthy, going out there and executing no matter what [and] just being the best athlete I can be… just to run a qualifying round, show fitness and take the rest of the time to get ready for Tokyo.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sha\u2019Carri Richardson‘s USA Track & Field Championships 2025 appeared to be over after just one race. The 2023…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-311549","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-united-states","9":"tag-us","10":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114958435778366645","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}