Sha’Carri Richardson Is Going for Olympic Gold
Released on 07/01/2024
[Commentator 1] That's one of Jamaican,
one of Jamaican [indistinct]
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[Commentator 2] Good- Oh wow!
[Commentator 2] Oh, look out.
She means business.
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[Sha'Carri] I feel like fashion is the flow of the body.
Fashion is the flow of expression.
Fashion relates to the way that I move my body.
The way that I run down the track is almost
like the same way I could strut down the runway.
Fashion and sports are one
in the same expression of self
and expression of flow.
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Beauty and the Beast comes together.
Basically, this is my own catwalk.
My lane is my catwalk.
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[crickets chirping]
It seems like a lot
of athletes move here.
I don't know if it's the weather.
I don't know if it's like the coaches
that are here, but this seems like the place
to be for athletes. [laughs]
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I just think it's important
that she is in the environment that she trains in
to honor how she expresses herself.
[Speaker] What?
[people laughing]
[people chattering]
Key gives me an energy
that even while she's doing my hair,
I can almost like feel her genuineness going
into my scalp.
Just her coming in with different ideas,
I'm like, I'm with it.
Like, let's do it.
Like what else you wanna do?
I only could get
to this point through experience
and having the right people around me.
I know that no matter what I do,
no matter what decision I made,
I know that it comes from me.
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[Announcer] This could be her moment.
This should be her moment.
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[gun firing]
[Interviewer] Where'd you get the idea for that?
My head.
[all laughing]
'Cause I was like, I don't know,
she didn't like her hair.
Why does she still have the wig on?
And I see her rip it.
I was like, Oh my God.
Yes, ma'am.
I know that's right.
And I understood the symbolism
when she did it.
Like I understand where she was coming from.
I'm not gonna change the confidence
that I have in myself ever,
but at the same time I have learned
that there's a way that I can carry
that so much more gracefully.
That's what really that moment came from.
I actually grind some nails
because of my grandmother.
She could grow her natural nails out this long
and I'm not even over exaggerating it.
That was something I noticed it
when I was younger, just always stuck with me.
These are like more acrylic, but that's fine. [laughs]
[Announcer] Last year's women's hundred meters winner,
the American Florence Griffith Joiner.
Seeing Flo-Jo, her style as well as Gail,
just showing their different approaches,
how they come to the line.
The blue, the white, the red, the gold.
She did her thing.
Oh my God.
Wait, what's the five for?
[Sha'Carri] The lane. Five is my favorite lane.
And then lane nine,
which is a historical lane setting a championship record.
[Commentator] Sha'Carri's done it!
That was the inspiration behind the nails.
[Announcer] Their queen of the track,
Florence Griffith Joiner is here
and the fastest woman on earth with the Hollywood style.
I more so found my interest in Flo-Jo
after the fact of finding my love for track through my mom.
It hurt me, but it didn't bother me.
I know that I'm a champion.
Flo-Jo's influence on me definitely comes
from her creativity and it her freedom
to just express herself in a way
that no other female athlete honestly had ever done.
Showing beauty, yet being able to show hard work,
applying to each other.
There are a lot of parallels between Flo-Jo
and Sha'Carri.
They both have a very distinct style,
like very independent, strong women.
They like to show themselves on the track.
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[Sha'Carri] I wanna make sure that my makeup doesn't look
lighter than what I am.
I'm a melanin girl, so I wanna make sure
that it match my skin tone.
[Sally] I'm gonna work with you.
[Sha'Carri] Okay. And you tell me
if you feel comfortable.
I definitely will let you know. Thank you.
[Sally] That's no problem.
[Sha'Carri] I don't wanna look ashy.
I want to look like a brown skinned girl on camera.
[Sally] You are a brown-skinned girl.
So yes, of course.
[Sha'Carri] I just wanna make sure
that that's emphasized.
[Sally] Yes.
[piano playing]
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[Sha'Carri] My family, they never allowed me to forget
who I am and where I come from.
Little do they know, they recharged me.
I can go do this.
I can go outta the world and handle never comes my way
because I know when I come home
that this is gonna continue to be my fuel.
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That energy is becoming a new world in itself.
I feel like in other sports they show that, you know,
athletes can be fashionable just
as much as they can be athletes.
We glam up, like we put it on,
we step forward, we are ready no matter what.
Look good, feel good, do good.
That all relates to the mental aspect,
the emotional aspect,
and ultimately the physical.
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