“Sha’Carri Richardson took on the 2024 Olympic Games for the first time, ending the first round of her women’s 100 sprint in first place. Known as the fastest woman in the world, Richardson reminded fans of the late Flo-Jo’s beauty–the fastest woman of all time–as she pressed her stiletto nails into the purple Olympic track,” wrote ESSENCE in one of their articles dating back to the Paris Olympics. Back then, she had clocked 10.94s in the heats, and her nails with vibrant colors and embellishments, complementing her Team USA uniform, brought comparison to Flo-J0. Yet the script has been flipped this year.

The 100m Olympic silver medalist and 2023 100m World Champion could not defend her title in the 2025 Tokyo World Athletics Championships. Though she clocked her first season best and fi

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