Sha'Carri Richardson runs away with 100m semifinal at Olympic Trials | NBC Sports

[Applause] so for men's 100 meter heats it's time for the women's 100 meter semis things are getting real you hear us talk about and you see the road to tokyo well that road to tokyo gets even more defined right here right now with 21 year old shakira richardson the sixth fastest woman of all time at just 21 years of age one of the things that i think is significant about her is that she's been told her entire lively that it's not your time yet and each time she's found a way to get it done regardless more on that in a second here's the ncaa champion cambria sturgis in fact she's the double champion 100 and 200 meters on this track a week ago yesterday in her hate she was not daunted by the company she was surrounded by she was not and if she continues to keep that attitude i think she's looking like a finalist she looked very good yesterday there are two olympians in this field jenna prandini is one jenna starts in lane six the other is in line seven that's tiana bartoletta tiana bartletta long jump reigning olympic champion but she let off two of the best relays ever for team usa including the world record in 2012. she carried richardson when she said when she was in high school they said well you're not going to go to the college and domino dominate those women she went to lsu her freshman year she sets the collegiate record and she turned pro and they said well you're young you have to pay your dues here she is second fastest in the world [Music] richardson said i could just tell you this is another race but i have to give respect to the magnitude of this event richardson with that bright orange hair she wasn't the first out of the blocks on the inside tiana daniel's got a good start but this is where richardson winds up and eases back she points to the time 10.65 how about that that clinches her 10.72 but she started pointing at the clock 30 meters before she started pointing at the clock 30 meters before the finish line is that my and as my coach always said if you're pointing at 30 it means you're thinking about it at 50 meters before the line look i said yesterday lee we're essentially trying to figure out who are the other two that are going to make the u.s team because nobody is beating this i know she's behind but look at the acceleration look at the relaxation and now she's like uh what am i going to do oh i'm bored i'm gonna point the clock oh my goodness the orange hair by the way is symbolic of i'm running on fire and she most certainly was her girlfriend chose the color for this weekend's trials and she's got to be careful because she stepped on the inside lane you don't want to get thrown out of the trials for impeding anybody but what an impressive run that was pointing at the clock a la carmelita jetter in the 2012 olympics when she anchored the relay that broke the world record that's number eight all time equal number eight all time all conditions by the way there were another seven athletes in that race and tiana daniels and jenna pran crandini they qualify they go through to tomorrow night's final top three and then the next is the next fastest two on time we'll make tomorrow night's final lewis johnson how about that how about that i have not seen anyone having as much fun as shakiri richards is having right now so a major statement in terms of time but what do you want the world to know about what you just did in the semifinal run i just want the world to know that i'm that girl that every time i step on the track i'm going to try to do what it is that me my coach my support team believe i can do and the talent that god bless me to have to do every time i step on the track i'm never going to take an opportunity to perform for jay in vain let's take it back from the start shakira you didn't have the traditional star that we saw so what happened there and how did you recover honestly not panicking uh me and my coach we have this method uh we know my thought is not quite the best like the world loves to point out but we know what it is to do what i do um excuse my ladder the part of the race that i do know i'm great at we just continue to make sure that i'm not too far behind as so as when i get to that part of the race i do what i can know to do and everybody else know that i can do it and it's just a semi-final but we saw the interaction with your family look forward to more in the final congrats on a tremendous request thank you so much you

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Length: 5min 3sec (303 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 20 2021