Story from the national outdoor track and field championships
“It just was me,” the sprinter said in May, while visiting Los Angeles, “that was standing in my way.”
The talent of Richardson, a past NCAA champion, was never questioned. Her consistency was. Yet this year she has run seven 100s, and all have been sub-11 seconds. That string of races, and the way she controlled all of them in Eugene, raises the question of who will win in August’s world championships in Hungary when it becomes Richardson against the world’s best.With byes earned at last year’s World Athletics Championships, U.S.
Richardson didn’t let up in her semifinal Friday evening by winning in 10.75. On her way to recover for the final, she tapped Mia Brahe-Pedersen and smiled as she walked by, leaving the teenager who just finished her junior year at Lake Oswego High beaming. They would meet again an hour later in the championship final, with Brahe-Pedersen, the first high school track athlete to sign a name, image and likeness contract with Nike, finishing seventh in 11.08.
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