Sha'Carri Richardson's Mom Just Died !!!

She's such an inspiration and very unique I love her personality she's young and having fun and when she runs it's as if she's floating I love to see the new generation do their thang! Freely with confidence. Go gurl!!!

Thanks for addressing this. I found this forum after I heard the biological mother comment. What I see pervasive through this thread is that: this young woman is not up to other people's standards because of how she looks and speaks, her sharing vulnerability in the face of her mom's loss and this amazing win is not appropriate because other people aren't as comfortable with theirs or she doesn't meet some behavioral standards based on *nothing really* let her represent herself! Stop putting her into these boxes of what a woman/athlete/black woman should behave like. "Trackrats" is not alone in the discouraging comments not based on her performance as an athlete. Shame on everyone else who is not speaking up in her defense.

Some of y'all should take the energy and drive you have to run and put it towards self improvement.

You really need to make up your mind, you criticize athletes like Rupp for being too boring and Richardson for being too interesting. What do you want? Richardson has had a tough life and is a product of her environment, of course she is not going to talk like a kid from the suburbs who when to Georgetown. I watched the race with my wife and 2 friends and they loved the way she acted and spoke. Track and field needs personalities even if sometimes they are a bit edgy.

I did an interview with Ms. R in Ostrava. I wasn't sure what to expect but it turned out to be the best interview of a day filled with good athlete interaction. I'm a fan.