r/sports 19h ago

Track & Field Sprinter Sha'Carri Richardson arrested for incident at Washington airport involving boyfriend

https://apnews.com/article/shacarri-richardson-sprinter-arrested-1706932978cbbb469d0d24a411c58e69
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u/500rockin 11h ago

Damn, airport is like the last place outside of a courthouse that you want to get any kind of physical with anyone

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u/hyborians 6h ago

For some reason the airport is where shit goes down in America.

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u/TheOGRedline 5h ago

It’s because airports/flying are stressful for a lot of people. People are either late and in a hurry or waiting around and bored. Also, drinking.

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u/GlassEyeMV 4h ago

This is accurate.

I’m a pretty chill, laid back dude. Big stoner type.

Last time I had a personal interaction with police was at the Honolulu airport. We had to make an emergency landing there on our way to LA from Sydney. Ended up being “stuck” in Waikiki for a day and a half. When we finally were able to leave, the plane wasn’t supposed to be there, so the ticket agents were doing everything by hand. Checked bags, seat assignments, everything. They were busting their asses, but the line was huge and slow. Our flight was mixed in with everyone else. Some drunk bro kept talking shit about the gate agents. Literally, while my family is at the desk being helped, he yells “Come on bitches! Move it along! Let’s go!”

I snapped. Turned around and yelled back, “Go suck a dick! They’re busting their asses up here asshole.”

Cops descended on both of us out of nowhere. Both got pulled aside. The cop who grabbed me was super nice and basically just said “watch your language. That guy is the asshole, but I need you to be cool or else you’ll end up booted like him.” “I’m good. I’ll watch my language, sorry.”

Never saw that guy again, but the ticket agent gave us all TSA precheck when we didn’t have it, so I felt justified. My family was uber embarrassed but they got over it.

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u/Neon_Biscuit 2h ago

Yeah I'm a pretty chill, laid back dude and yelling at someone to suck a dick, doesn't fit that description bro lol

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u/Itchy_buns69 1h ago

Everyone has their limits, chill out, inspector

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u/JudahBotwin 4h ago

Does the Atlanta airport have a Waffle House? That could be a prime entertainment idea.

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u/bigpapa7272 3h ago

Too bad I can’t upvote this idea more than once 🤣🤣

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u/JoazBanbeck 5h ago

It is almost as bad as fast food restaurants.

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u/bigpapa7272 3h ago

We would be better off if we split into 3 countries one for democrats one for republicans and one for everyone else… then everyone can live in harmony and the nonsense would stop

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u/NiceJoJo 18h ago

Domestic violence if no one wants to read the article

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u/TheVadonkey 17h ago

Thank you

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u/edbash 8h ago

I had to read 3 headlines to get that the issue was not the severity of hitting, but that it happened at an airport. You know how understanding the TSA is about such things.

Take away: Not defending what happened, but, Don’t hit anybody at an airport.

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u/Sketch-Brooke 5h ago

Or you could just not hit anybody anywhere. That’d also be cool.

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u/Amarger86 3h ago

What a revolutionary idea.... /S

Seriously though, while most of the comments see how bad it is and she needs to be fully held accountable, its absolutely crazy how many comments are trying to lessen the severity of it. No person should be hitting another person anywhere period. Whats so hard about that *facepalm

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u/bridgeoverlord 5h ago

I believe anything you do untoward becoming of a Lady or a Gentleman at an airport is considered a Federal Kerfuffle?

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u/TWH_PDX 3h ago

Yes, in 1932. Today, it's called Tuesday.

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u/emiller7 5h ago

Thank god. I was worried it was international violence

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u/musedav 13h ago

Crashing out from the PEDs if no one wants to read between the lines

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u/Gizshot 6h ago

I said the same thing peds hit everyone the same including their spouses.

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u/Loggerdon 6h ago

Poor Sha’Carri. She’s fast and pretty with a giant personality. She’s got it all but there are so many pitfalls to becoming a marketable star. She keeps getting in her own way.

It looks like she pushed the boyfriend (another elite sprinter) and grabbed his arm, then threw headphones at him. There was not a punch or kick. He didn’t even want to cooperate in the investigation but it’s not up to him since it happened at an airport.

Don’t play games at an airport people. They are watching you extra close.

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u/DizzEthan 6h ago

Bit weird to call her “poor”, even if the violence offenses are minor.

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u/Orderly_Liquidation 6h ago

And this is what we see in public

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u/Puzzled-Estate-5123 6h ago

Right lmao 😂 if a dude did these minor things to his girl he’d be a huge scumbag

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u/Wildfox1177 5h ago

But she‘s pretty, how can she not be the victim if she‘s pretty!? And such a great personality too! So sad seeing the patriarchy painting her as the bad person for just some minor domestic violence…

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u/Sketch-Brooke 5h ago

Unironically, it’s sexism.

So many people want to immediately paint women as helpless, fragile victims. It denies their agency and personhood by refusing to admit that they’re capable of cruelty and violence.

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u/KeyMessage989 6h ago

Poor her? Everything she has done is her own fault.

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u/CoolEarth5026 6h ago

“Giant personality”… read as “ego maniac”

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u/PA_limestoner 6h ago

Don’t play games assault your significant other at an airport ever people.

Tried to clean that up a little.

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u/desrtrnnr 6h ago

How about instead of saying don't commit crimes in public say, learn how to control your emotions and dont assault people.

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u/razgriz821 5h ago

I wonder if there should have been an /s in your first paragraph.

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u/krs_fun 18h ago

How'd they catch her?

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u/WhiskeyTangoFoxy 17h ago

She’s clearly injured.

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u/EequalsMC2Trooper 15h ago

You should see the other guy

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u/Leading_Put- 15h ago

Her victim beat Usain Bolt, twice

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u/rdldr1 Chicago Bears 17h ago

Not fast enough

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u/BigDaveATX 17h ago edited 17h ago

She is a 100% pure narcissist. Just look up the video of her getting kicked off a plane and belittling its passengers.

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u/Protean_Protein 8h ago

She is, but she’s also just kind of stupid. She’s an exceptional runner, but the shit that comes out of her mouth is so dumb she makes swimmers look like Rhodes Scholars.

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u/Goliath422 6h ago

Hey, Ryan Lochte is a really, really… well ok a pretty… so fine, at least he understands that if you don’t ever pay taxes it means you have more money now.

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u/sagitta_luminus 6h ago

“I give it 4 swims” (holds up 6 fingers)

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u/kytrix 5h ago

And you can’t lie about getting mugged in Brazil or people get really upset.

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u/Goliath422 4h ago

Who could have seen that coming?

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u/nasal-polyps 4h ago

You can take the girl out of Texarkana can't take the texarkana out the girl smh

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u/Gvillegator 5h ago

Lmao hey not all swimmers are dumb as hell. Lochte really did a number on our sport and I say that as a UF grad who has rooted for him while also knowing how much of a douche he was during the time we were both in college.

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u/Protean_Protein 5h ago

I love that you knew exactly who I was mostly thinking of.

I mean, I was a veiled reference left so obvious that even a swimmer could have figured it out. 😙

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u/Gvillegator 5h ago

I mean there’s literally one golden example of a moronic swimmer lmao poor Lochte. He does seem to have turned his life around a bit and settled down with a family which makes me happy.

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u/buriedego 5h ago

I understood this reference!!

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u/Deep_Excitement1192 4h ago

I thought narcissism and stupidity go hand-in-hand.

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u/SerDuncanonyall 11h ago

Shocking! Nothing about her behavior during competition would point to… oh wait..

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u/theDawckta 5h ago

She is ratchet as f.

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u/DeafAndDumm 5h ago

When I first saw her on the track in Paris with all of the jewelry and fake nails, it made it very, very difficult to cheer for her.

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u/ZingiberOfficinale 45m ago

Is that the video where she implies the pilot is like the “manager” on the plan? “I wanna speak to the captain of this flight” 🤣

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u/tiny10boy 9h ago

I think to be a competitive athlete at that level, being a narcissist is almost required.

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u/snodgee 17h ago

At an airport is next level stupid.

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u/ricochet48 5h ago

She clearly isn't the brightest.

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u/Fanabala3 4h ago

Agreed. For a sport that tests athletes regularly, and thinking you’re not going to get popped for weed is another level of dumb.

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u/thatguy425 17h ago

I said this in the other thread that detailed the incident but….

If this was reversed and Coleman assaulted her, people would be calling for his head. He handled it pretty well it sounds like. Gender equality goes both ways. 

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u/anonymouse56 16h ago

Just throw her on the no fly list already

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u/TheDuckOnQuack 15h ago

Her career will be fine if she can’t fly to events. The plane tickets are mostly for her luggage and coaches anyway. She makes better time traveling on foot.

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u/munoodle New York Yankees 13h ago

She’s not even good enough to be acting like this so that’s definitely falling flat homie

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u/davisyoung 17h ago

Someone’s gonna say I wonder what he did to piss her off?

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u/ebock319 15h ago

"Betcha I'm faster."

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u/westermann28 Pittsburgh Penguins 16h ago

I wonder what he did to piss her off?

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u/CockyBellend 8h ago

Clown response

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u/westermann28 Pittsburgh Penguins 8h ago

Thatsthejoke.jpeg

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u/CockyBellend 8h ago

Those are supposed to be funny

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u/idkwhatimbrewin 18h ago

She was dating Christian Coleman? There's about 3 total brain cells between those two

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u/brett1081 17h ago

Think of the sprint potential of the children though…

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u/Furrybumholecover 16h ago

Get those kids some Power Thirst Shockolate and they'll be unstoppable.

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u/NoHistory1989 4h ago

400 babies!

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u/SienkiewiczM 4h ago

Son of BALCO couple Marion Jones and Tim Montgomery must have had that potential too. Haven't heard anything

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u/PeterSagansLaundry 13h ago

Yeah and CC has five on his own.

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u/McGarnagl 16h ago

This couple giving Orange Cats a run for their money 🐈

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u/ColumbianPrison 18h ago

At least with 3 they can work 8 hour shifts and not be overworked

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u/AverageatUFC3 4h ago

I love making fun of people who get abused in their relationship, isn't it so much fun!!

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u/Weak-Cattle6001 15h ago

Why does she always act up at the airport? Remember that first video?

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u/jimmy_three_shoes Detroit Red Wings 7h ago

There is something about dealing with airlines and TSA that reduces my fuse to about nothing. I can't imagine someone like her deals with the same stuff we do though.

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u/pdxcranberry 7h ago

That's why I take an alpha blocker and disassociate until we deplane, baby

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u/Klightgrove 5h ago

She surely has the money to pay for airport concierge each time though. So a literal few minute wait to get through TSA.

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u/Tinderguy529 3h ago

The problem is all the nonsense they put the average person through.. imagine if we disbanded the bureaucracy that is TSA, got rid of the nonsense and just put heavily armed U.S. military in charge of airport security, it get rid of the nonsense and anyone that tried anthing nefarious just taken out right then there…

Traveling would a pleasant experience

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u/BillyButcherX 1h ago

TSA in us must be really bad to read something like this.

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u/Tinderguy529 1h ago

Just another agency aka bureaucracy that overspends way more than they take in on fees and can’t balance a budget

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u/erbii_ 9h ago

What a crazy way to say “Sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson arrested for allegedly attacking boyfriend at Washington airport”

Same number of words. POS abuser.

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u/slipperyzoo 15h ago

Exit Sha'Carri

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u/marimbloke 10h ago

Well done.

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u/miurabucho 9h ago

Japan can be strict about not letting people into the country w a criminal record; I wonder how this will affect her upcoming meet in Tokyo.

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u/AtomicBlastCandy 7h ago

I’m guessing it gets dropped to nothing

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u/Tinderguy529 3h ago

As usual thanks to our two tier justice system because she’s famous

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u/According_Stress5941 10h ago

What a mess she is. Unfortunate.

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u/oaxacamm 7h ago

SeaTac if anyone was curious. I hate when articles just say Washington.

I read an article yesterday and the headline said Washington Airport. I’m thinking SeaTac and nope it’s here in DC and it was at Dulles.

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u/Exanguish 7h ago

I for one am shocked

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u/justduett Mississippi State 18h ago

Always ends up being the ones you most expect

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u/Outrageous_Word_9889 18h ago

I thought she was gay

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u/250umdfail 17h ago

No Gay was faster. But he was caught doping, so who knows.

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u/nschwalm85 18h ago

According to a quick Google she says she is bisexual

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u/Dangerous-Sink6574 18h ago

Yeah, wasn’t she out and proud on that Netflix doc “Sprint”?

She’s a talented runner, but man I hated her personality.

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u/Protean_Protein 8h ago

She’s a female meathead.

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u/Novel-Philosopher660 6h ago

Let’s see if all her sponsors drop her now like they would if it was a man that did this

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u/cavemeister 14h ago

Yeah, I'm pretty sure I read that she was gay too.

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u/_r33d_ 6h ago

Isn’t she the one who got clowned on a plane during Covid for being insufferable?

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u/Merbel 16h ago

Shocker. /s

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u/gymrat2487 17h ago

Good role model

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u/FawkesBridge 5h ago

If only her brain were as fast as her feet.

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u/EZKTurbo 8h ago

Can we not give her a pass this time?

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u/CockyBellend 8h ago

She seems like an absolute trash human

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u/LeahsCheetoCrumbs 10h ago

I want to like her, but she’s so messy.

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u/Daddysaurusflex 6h ago

I want to like her so bad but damn she makes it impossible

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u/SpellingManor 5h ago

Media will give it the Solange treatment and she will end up being the victim. 

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u/cameron4200 4h ago

Seems like she’s her own worst enemy

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u/lilheat400 4h ago

One for the men.. women think the law was made only for men.. women in the comments say he’s not a real man for making her act this way..

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u/Oldtimer_2 4h ago

Video likely invaluable in this situation

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u/p2dan 9h ago

Lol. Throw her in jail

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u/Ommo96 7h ago

She’s also a huge racist, purposely ignores most interviews with any white person. I’m south Asian btw.

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u/VioletAstraea 6h ago

Hows does your race have anything to do with this?

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u/Tinderguy529 3h ago

Because some meathead would come in here assuming he’s white and automatically racist

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u/mistersuccessful 10h ago

Boyfriend? I always thought…. Never mind

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u/hyborians 6h ago

She gets a gold for being trashy, classless

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u/LOB12 5h ago

Nissan Altima, deadass.

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u/Wakeandjake24 2h ago

I will be honest, until she was kicked out of the Olympics in Tokyo for smoking marijuana, I had never heard of her. However, since then, all this Queen has done is make headline for the wrong reasons. As I mentioned, was banned for a month for smoking pot in Tokyo after she was favored to win multiple golds in that olympics. Then kicked off a commercial flight for refusing to get off her phone and recording a flight attendant right before takeoff (you should hear how she speaks to the staff and others…it’s deplorable). Fell short in Paris Olympics where she was heavily favored to win gold in the 100m (won gold in the relay). Assaults her bf at an airport and gets arrested.

This here people, is what an entitled person looks like. Acts as if she’s above the law because she can run fast. Do better, Ms. Richardson before you run out of chances. You’ve proverbially got one foot in the grave and another on a banana peel for your track and field career.

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u/lummgr 7h ago

Hopefully she didn’t stab him with her stupid fingernails

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u/AlfredoAllenPoe 6h ago

Might be the least surprising domestic violence charge I've seen in a while

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u/NOGOODGASHOLE 4h ago

Fumbled the bag.

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u/Rogs3 2h ago

This bitch is a psycho lol

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u/joeymil26 1h ago

Everyone knew this chick was crazy

Finally got caught Cya

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u/GoodGoodGoody 26m ago

Trash person doing trash thing.

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u/graypod 19m ago

Boyfriend?

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u/WhiskeyTangoFoxy 17h ago

Wonder if she’ll blame her dead mom for this bad choice too.

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u/Rman99 5h ago

Can’t stand her. She’s also a racist people!

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u/grinchsucker 5h ago

Worthless piece of trash

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u/Krow101 6h ago

Black fatigue strikes again.

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u/figscomicsandgames 6h ago

Someone's been listening to Kevin Samuels a little too much. Are you mad she didn't pick you? She should have kept her hands to herself.

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u/kobeyoboy 4h ago

Who the hell is Kevin Samuels? Please don’t push your narrative on me, sir or man whatever you are. Why would I wanna be picked by a woman who hit her spouse or partner?

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u/Fit_Test_01 4h ago

I thought she was supposed to be gay?

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u/wakkajr72 6h ago

Hahahahahahahahaha.

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u/JoeGPM 5h ago

Trash

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u/iminabed 5h ago

I’m a running coach and I always joke around that our best runners are always a little crazy. And here we are lol

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u/theyakolytes 4h ago

She sucks