GO DEEPER
Sha’Carri Richardson, chasing an Olympic legacy, has already made one back home
Jackson was one of Richardson’s greatest competitors in the vaunted dash. Jackson — who won a gold medal on Jamaica’s 4×100 team at the Tokyo Olympics and a bronze medal in the 100 — won the Jamaican trials in June with a time of 10.84 in the 100-meter final. She will be replaced by Shashalee Forbes, whose season best is 11.03 seconds.
Jackson and Richardson split their last two head-to-head meetings. Richardson beat the field in the 2023 World Championships in Budapest. Her stunning come-from-behind victory in 10.65 seconds is featured in the Netflix documentary “Sprint.” Jackson finished second at 10.72.
But Jackson got revenge a month later at the 2023 Prefontaine Classic, running a wind-aided 10.70 to beat Richardson, who finished fourth in 10.80.
Richardson — the pride of Dallas and face of North Texas track — will still have to deal with legendary Jamaica sprinter Shelly-Ann Fraser-Price, who is in her fifth and perhaps final Olympics and is certainly looking to cap her stellar career with a gold medal.
Jackson’s complete focus on the 200 meters, where she has been aiming to break Florence Griffith-Joyner’s decades-old world record, is now the problem of Gabby Thomas, America’s favorite in the 200.
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