Contract declined: Sha’Carri Richardson turns down $675.4 million contract just to become…

Sha’Carri Richardson has already made history, and you can expect her to do it again at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

The stunning sprinter is making a glorious comeback for Team USA after being prohibited from competing in the 2021 games due to legal cannabis use in the state of Oregon. Richardson has overcome trauma in her personal life, as well as professional obstacles, to become one of the most celebrated athletes of her generation—and she’s developed her own catchphrases to both hype herself up and keep herself grounded.

“I almost have to remind myself, ‘Hey, you are that girl. You have done this before!’ As well as, ‘I’m not back, I’m better,'” she told the Nike Women Zine. “Meaning, yes, I may have been younger, immature, but I feel like I’m now better. My talent has always been what it was, if not better. I’m still the same girl, but l’m a better woman. ‘I’m not back, l’m better’ just sinks into my head on race day.”

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Born in Dallas on March 25, 2000, Richardson was raised by her grandmother and one of her aunts.

She first achieved some recognition for her speed when she was in college: She broke an NCAA record for the 100-meter sprint at her alma mater, Louisiana State University, as a freshman in 2019.

In April 2021, Richardson became the sixth-fastest woman of all time and the fourth-fastest American woman in history, thanks to her record for 100-meter sprint, clocking in at 10.62 seconds.

Sadly, she achieved infamy in July 2021 when it was revealed she was suspended from the Tokyo Olympics for testing positive for cannabis. Richardson later said she used cannabis in Oregon—where it’s perfectly legal—as a means of coping with the death of her mother. Despite the tragedy with which she was dealing at the time, she was prohibited from competing in the 2020 Olympics (which took place a year late due to the COVID-19 pandemic), but became more famous than ever.