Sha’Carri Richardson advances to 100m semi-finals in simply third race of season

Sha’Carri Richardson on Worlds: “I wish to be a secret weapon”

An unspecified harm set Richardson’s season preparations again in February. She opened her 2025 on the Golden Grand Prix in Could, held in the identical venue that may host Worlds, the Tokyo Nationwide Stadium.

She was fourth there (11.47), after which did not compete once more in till the Prefontaine Traditional in Eugene in early July, the place she faltered to ninth (11.19) in a race that noticed Jefferson-Picket simply edge out Olympic champion Julien Alfred.

Is she flying underneath the radar forward of her title defence at Worlds?

“I feel so,” Richardson mentioned. “I wish to be a secret weapon. So proper now, I am type of simply cruising underneath the radar, however when it is time to hit, it is gonna be a bang when y’all see my identify.”

Whereas she has that aforementioned bye into Worlds, Richardson mentioned it was essential for her to return to Eugene and present progress.

“I wished to return out right here and be a competitor,” she mentioned. “I am not simply counting on that bye. I wished to indicate up and present that I am a competitor it doesn’t matter what occurs.”

Richardson, Thomas and Jefferson-Picket are all set to try the double right here in Eugene, racing each the 100m and 200m.

Saying she’s “been going by way of rather a lot” this 12 months, Richardson says all of it comes again to constantly displaying up: For herself, her staff and to check her limits as probably the greatest sprinters on the earth.

“I feel essentially the most I’ve realized about myself is simply at all times present up, irrespective of anything,” she advised Olympics.com. “Simply at all times present and go away what it’s that you really want the world to see and know [about you] on the observe.”