Sha’Carri Richardson is headed to the 2024 Summer Olympics — and even a near accident on the track couldn’t stop her!
During the 2024 U.S. Olympic Track and Field Team Trials on Saturday, June 22, the sprinter crossed the line first in the women’s 100m race with a time of 10.71 seconds, giving her the record for the world’s fastest time for the year and securing her spot at the Paris Olympics this summer.
Her Olympic-qualifying finish at the trials on Saturday night came after she captured headlines on Friday for finishing in the No. 1 spot of the women’s 100-meter dash on day one of the trials in Eugene, Oregon — despite tripping over her untied shoelace.
A video of Friday night’s race at Hayward Field shows Richardson stumbling over her laces just as she came out of the blocks, but she quickly recovered and overtook all five of her competitors. She won the heat in…
