Richardson’s suspension will keep her from running in the 2021 Olympics after she tested positive for cannabis.
President Joe Biden told reporters Saturday that he supported the decision to suspend runner and sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson from running in the 2021 Olympics after she tested positive for marijuana. «The rules are the rules,» he said, adding, «I was really proud of the way she responded.» Richardson received national attention last month after winning her qualifying 100-meter race in Oregon. However, she learned around then that her biological mother had passed away, she said, and used marijuana as a way to cope. She tweeted on Thursday a simple line, invoking both sympathy and criticism. «I just say, don’t judge me and I am human—I’m you, I just happen to run a little faster,» she said on NBC ‘s Today show on Friday.
