The US sprint star Sha’carri Richardson withdrew on Friday from the US athletics championships in Oregon when she was arrested and held in an airport liability center days earlier.
The reigning world champion of World 100m, Richardson, one of us’s greatest stars from us sprint, was held by the police on Sunday at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
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Local records for correctional facilities showed that it was released on Monday, but did not see any fees or the reason for the arrest of the 25-year-old.
The Port of Seattle police did not immediately answer a request for further information. Richardson’s management team did not respond to a request for comments.
The news of Richardson’s arrest came when athletics in the United States confirmed that at the championships this week in Eugene, after having driven on Thursday in the opening homes of the 100 meter openings of the women on Thursday.
Richardson -who was known to be excluded at the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2021, after she had tested positively for the use of marijuana after her victory at the US exams, after her heat, there was no reference to new controversy in her private life on Thursday.
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The Texas Star laughed and joked with journalists when they spoke in Tokyo about their shape and fitness at the World Championships in September.
She did not mention her arrest at the beginning of the week and was not asked for it.
As the defending champion, Richardson already has a goodbye to the World Cup in Japan and was not obliged to drive to Eugene this week.
In the heat on Thursday, she drove her fastest 100 m of the season with a time of 11.07 seconds.
She was supposed to have run on the 200 m this weekend, but a USATF spokesman said she scratched both 100 m and 200 m. Richardson’s name remained on the 200m start list late Friday.
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A smiling Richardson said on Thursday that she was happy to take part in Eugene and know that her place in the team for Tokyo was already safe.
“USA is one of the most difficult teams to be done, so it is definitely a kind of publication of printing when I know that I have a goodbye,” she told AFP.
“It feels really good not to have this pressure and still go to Tokyo.
“At the moment I’m going under the radar, but when it’s time to beat – it will be a bang in which you see my name,” she said.
Richardson’s exit came when Noah Lyles withdrew from the men’s 100 -M world champion from the remaining rounds of the short sprint. Lyles, who is already qualified for Tokyo, will run in the 200 m race on Sunday.
The 200 m master of the Olympic women, Gabby Thomas, also withdrawn from the rest of the 100 m and will concentrate on the 200 m.
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