Sha’Carri Richardson Finishes Last in Return to Track

Racing for the first time since a drug test kept her out of the Tokyo Olympics, Richardson and the rest of the field were no match for Elaine Thompson-Herah of Jamaica.

Sha’Carri Richardson sent a message before she returned to the track on Saturday. “Aug. 21,” she wrote alongside a video she posted on Instagram this week, “and I’m not playing nice.” The message was clear: Weeks after a positive drug test cost her Olympic dream, Richardson was, in the video and in real life, ready to run again. On Saturday at Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore., though, her return to competition at the Prefontaine Classic did not go as planned.