Sha'Carri Richardson headed to first Olympics thanks to 100m victory

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Sha'Carri Richardson punched her ticket to the Paris Games by winning the women's 100-meter on Saturday night at the U.S. Olympic track field trials in Eugene, Ore.

Richardson's 10.71-second sprint will be sending her to the Olympics for the first time. She qualified for the 2020 Tokyo Games -- which were held in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic -- but a one-month suspension s