Sha'Carri Richardson out of Olympics after positive marijuana test at trials

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Several years ago I lost my father, at the time I held a job where I was drug tested regularly. I didn’t go and get super high or into a drunken stupor. So when we talk about personal loss and drug use, that’s just an excuse.

Not just to you but to a lot of people who are showing a lack of compassion on this thread.

Before you go saying it’s just an excuse, step back & go walk a mile in her shoes. She’s not you. You don’t apply to her, your situation doesn’t apply to her. Her relationship with her Mom isn’t the relationship you had with your Dad. You don’t know what went on behind the scenes in that relationship or the impact her Mom’s death had on her.

Honestly about half the posters on this thread should just stfu bc it shows what a dick you are.

I usually take extended leaves from ST because of observations you make here. It gets emotionally overwhelming.

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Positive drug test in competition?

Lifetime Ban

Play stoopid games win stoopid prizes. Everybody dies, deal with it.

…For smoking pot? OK, boomer. Should we also put people in jail for life for shoplifting a snickers bar? This country and our obsession with punishing people for minor drug use is archaic and embarassing.

Performance enhancing? Yeah, maybe if you’re not hungry but you know you gotta get carbs in the night before. Do me a favor and try it one time and you’ll realize how absurd the stigma against it is.

She had ZERO competitive advantage, she did not hinder anyone else’s peformance. Get rid of the damn marijuana ban and let the woman race.

This. Its pot. Im a doctor, almost all my friends have masters or a phd, everyone enjoys thc and its 1000x safer than beer. If they banned alcohol, i would have nothing to say about pot.

Posted while enjoying a can of galactic tiki bar

If you got a doctorate, you are certainly familiar with this:

https://www.cdc.gov/...ctsheets/driving.htm

Besides, MDs, PhDs do the same stupid things every other human can do. So you pulling that card is exactly that.

I have to interact with stoned drivers, the trash form their munchies and the nauseating smell on every bike ride through my local state park.

Weed is awesome!

PhDs would refer to your observations, collectively, as a textbook example of confirmation bias.

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Unfair rules, like illegal votes, don’t exist. Rules are the imaginary construct to our imaginary games that we all agree on beforehand and apply to all participants. They’re imaginary, but by they have real power in the real world.

Now, if somebody famous or sure to draw ratings to the Olympics has a positive test swept under the rug for the sake of making someone more money, then yeah that’s unfair.

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Of course, because all those slaves must’ve found slavery laws very, very fair to them. You seem to ignore the fact that, fairly frequently, the ones writing the rules are not the ones being affected by them.

THC is not a performance enhancing substance, so it makes no sense that someone would lose on the Olympics for it.

Don’t want to get into semantics or philosophy, but obviously those weren’t laws or rules. Illegal immoral horrible things only applied to a few. They were weapons.

But, the story we told ourselves and continue to tell ourselves to **facilitate cooperation used the concept of law, an appeal to authority, etc. We spent and spend insane amounts of energy fooling ourselves. **

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Eric…discussions with even the slightest complexion of philosophy are going to be entirely lost on most of these fools.

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It just occurred to me that with all the fervent support for mj use on this forum, it would be interesting to know what % of Ironman participants would fail an in-competition test.
I have a hunch that out West, it may be substantial.

More absurd statements. If we were aspiring Olympians then we would read the rules and try to abide by them. You would see the same % of positive tests as you see now. Many many Olympian hopefuls live in OR, CA and CO and they manage not to test positive.

I also do not think that what you are observing is “fervent support” but rather an understanding that smoking marijuana does not automatically mean you are a drug addict.

In addition, those of you vilifying marijuana should read a bit more about this other legal drug that man of us, including you, enjoy: alcohol.

Since you attack me claiming I made statements regarding physical addiction (untrue) and also make aggressive blanket ass-umptions regarding my use of recreational drugs (I don’t drink alcohol), I think the term ‘fervent’ if not ‘vicious’ is appropriate, IMO.
To make it clear:
I really don’t care what you put in your body as long as it doesn’t affect me, my health or my safety.

Driving/cycling/running/operating/handling otherwise dangerous or safety critical materials/equipment in my presence while having significant levels of THC in your system, qualifies as being problematic by all scientific knowledge.

Oops. You were doing okay until you made that critical overstatement. Want to know the giveaway? “All”. You doomed any credibility that you had previously obtained with that little word. Now you look incompetent and like a liar with an agenda.

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I know all about Marijuana as I live in a state where people smoke it like cigarettes. Contrary to belief it’s very addictive and it is a gateway drug. Sorry but it a fact.

Yup it is a gateway drug. I still think it should be legalised, or at the very least decriminalised and it’s far less harmful than alcohol, but it’s a shit drug.

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She knew the rules.

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I know all about Marijuana as I live in a state where people smoke it like cigarettes. Contrary to belief it’s very addictive and it is a gateway drug. Sorry but it a fact.

Yup it is a gateway drug. I still think it should be legalised, or at the very least decriminalised and it’s far less harmful than alcohol, but it’s a shit drug.

It is a gateway drug to oreo cookies and Rick and Morty marathons.

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What type of business?

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Hallelujah!

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Business that involves operating trucks, forklifts and retail sale of inventory.

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Several years ago I lost my father, at the time I held a job where I was drug tested regularly. I didn’t go and get super high or into a drunken stupor. So when we talk about personal loss and drug use, that’s just an excuse.

Not just to you but to a lot of people who are showing a lack of compassion on this thread.

Before you go saying it’s just an excuse, step back & go walk a mile in her shoes. She’s not you. You don’t apply to her, your situation doesn’t apply to her. Her relationship with her Mom isn’t the relationship you had with your Dad. You don’t know what went on behind the scenes in that relationship or the impact her Mom’s death had on her.

Honestly about half the posters on this thread should just stfu bc it shows what a dick you are.

I’ll pass on engaging in this. But know the rules, follow the rules, and don’t blame other things for conscious decisions. It’s a conscious decision to use any kind of forbidden substances on the WADA Anti-Doping list, and it’s well known that you can’t use marijuana in-competition. Additionally 150ng/ml is A LOT.

You do not understand what “I’ll pass on engaging in this…” means. What you meant was, “Let me get in the last word.” Which was DD’s point.

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Hahaha! So true!

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Why is she freaking out so much about a speeding ticket. Nike?

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@Zuckerzeit she is stupid to speed, no question, but if you are not a white person and a cop says you are going to jail, you just end up with a wide range of emotions. He could have just said, “I am going to have to impound your car, and take you to the station and you will need to make some calls to get your bond paid for and after that you’re likely not going to be able to drive for a long time”. Same procedure, but telling a person they are going to jail is going to inherently elicit the emotions she expressed.

She definitely deserves the ticket, getting her car impounded and being shipped off to the cop shop so she can make some calls to get bail posted. I am not questioning that. But i can understand her fear and emotions at that moment at the end of the video

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Dude, stop this nonsense. Or send it to the coffee shop. Just because you have a narrative built up doesn’t make it real.

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lmao that girl is fast as fuck, but dumb as hell. why on earth would you cut off a cop car while speeding?

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Hey @Zuckerzeit brought up why she is reacting about a speeding ticket, I said she is stupid for speeding, but I explained why her reaction was the way it was when he told her jail was involved. You can disregard why her reaction was that way, i just explained it. Don’t try to bully away your angle by telling me to take it to the coffee shop. @rrheisler can move this entire thread if he wants (and at this point it likely makes sense as it has nothing to do with sport other than a sporting personality who runs is involved).

Realistically there is no reason to bring up speeding in the main forum in the first place, but if someone (who I know personally) is asking why she is over reacting, I am trying to provide an explanation from an angle that some will understand, others won’t exactly get it.

Telling me to shut up and go and using “nonesense” and “narrative” won’t change how she reacted. Yes, pretty dumb driving (she is not the first nor last). The cop was pretty level headed about everything else. I actually thought it was funny that he pointed out to her a number of things including her pressing the accelerator harder on a tire pressure thing (paraphrasing) . Anyway, we can have a civil discussion. To be clear, he treated her fairly. Keeping the word ‘jail’ out of it, achieves the same thing (impound the car, take her to the cop shop, have her make a few calls to post bail and leave)

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Few thread notes:

1.) this is still “main forum” content. A backhanded “send it over there” ain’t it. Response to that is probably slightly on the nose too, but here we are.

2.) for context: Richardson had been arrested previously in 2025, and probably didn’t want a second one (both contractually and, well, insert thousand other obvious reasons here). Florida has a new “super speeder” law, which means you’re going to jail if you’re either 50 over the limit -or- you’re over 100 MPH. She was apparently driving 102 in a 65.

Some additional reading, as Christian Coleman also wound up in this mess thanks to showing up as Richardson was being arrested…

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It appears under the Florida Super Speeder law you can serve actual jail time for speeding. Maybe that was the reason.

Total Running Productions reporting that Christian Coleman got arrested shortly afterwards for interfering with the arrest and there was drug paraphernalia found in his car. Actually didn’t realize there was so much drama with these two. You’re right. Probably not the best place here to discuss.

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Where I live we have the equivalent of super speeder too, Doing that is just dumb (I think many of us have done it for shits and giggles at 19 or 20 trying to make sure there were no cops around, but not in traffic).