Sha’Carri Richardson made headlines in August 2025 when she was arrested for allegedly assaulting her boyfriend, Christian Coleman, multiple outlets reported. The Olympic sprinter was taken into police custody at Seattle-Tacoma Airport in Washington after a TSA employee reported a woman assaulting a man, per TMZ. Sha’Carri was released from police custody shortly thereafter.
This wasn’t the first time that Sh’Carri found herself in the news. Four years prior, she missed the entire 2020 Summer Olympics after submitting a drug test, which was positive for THC metabolites (for recent cannabis use). She accepted a one-month suspension as a result and could have qualified in the women’s 4 x 100 relay in August 2021, but she wasn’t selected.
“While USATF fully agrees that the merit of the World Anti-Doping Agency rules related to THC should be reevaluated, it would be detrimental to the integrity of the U.S. Olympic Team Trials for Track & Field if USATF amended its policies following competition, only weeks before the Olympic Games,” the organization said in the statement obtained by USA Today. “All USATF athletes are equally aware of and must adhere to the current anti-doping code, and our credibility as the National Governing Body would be lost if rules were only enforced under certain circumstances.”
Sha’Carri Richardson happy to be healthy and competing again #USATFOutdoors pic.twitter.com/w6GFk5gEcX
— Travis Miller (@travismillerx13) August 1, 2025
After the news broke, Sha’Carri said she wasn’t really upset over it. “Honestly, that news didn’t bother me because me and my team were realistic, so we kind of figured that they would say that in the first place,” she told TMZ at the time. “I understand the situation that’s going on. So, I’m accepting of it, and I just know what I have to do moving forward in my career.”
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Sha’Carri has been running competitively for six years. Her first major title came in 2016, when she came in first in the 100m race for the AAU Junior Olympics, according to the Louisiana State University Athletics Department. In 2019, she won the same competition at the NCAA Division I Women’s Outdoor Track & Field Championships. The Olympic Trials were her most recent victory.
