Known as the “Sha’Carri Stare,” the Texas sprinter is now giving context to the side-eye seen ‘round the world, which she employed while coming from behind on the anchor leg of the relay and nabbed the gold for the Team USA.
“I looked over and I just knew that no matter what was going on, there was nobody that I was going to allow — even myself — to be in front of me,” Richardson told the outlet. “I wasn’t going to even allow myself to not cross that finish line in first place and not get that medal, or to let down those ladies and the support that we received when it comes to us crossing the finish line, in first place as Team USA.
We just knew that if we were our very best and executed, we had the confidence and the faith,” she said. “Not even just confidence, but the faith that we had in the practices that we put in, and the ability that each lady had, and also the trust that we had in each other. We knew that no matter what we were going to do our very best and ultimately deliver the gold. And so I literally just trusted every single body before me and it almost was like a chain reaction.”
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