- Sha'Carri Richardson questioned the decision to allow Kamila Valieva to compete in the Olympics after failing a drug test.
- Richardson was not allowed to compete in the Summer 2020 Games after she tested positive for marijuana in a drug test.
- "The only difference I see is I'm a Black young lady," Richardson said of the differing decisions.
Sha'Carri Richardson — the Black woman who was not allowed to compete in the Summer 2020 Olympics because she smoked marijuana after he mother died — says race seems to have influenced the decision to allow Kamila Valieva to compete in the Beijing Games after she, too, failed a drug test.
"Can we get a solid answer on the difference of her situation and mines?" Richardson asked on Twitter on Monday after the decision was announced. "My mother died and I can't run and was also favored to place top 3. The only difference I see is I'm a Black young lady," she said.
Valieva tested positive for the banned drug trimetazidine in a December drug test, prompting an immediate suspension from the games.
But the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) reversed the decision Monday, paving the way for Valieva to compete in the singles figure skating event Tuesday.
Richardson was barred from competing at the Olympics by the US Anti-Doping Agency after testing positive for THC, the main psychoactive compound in marijuana, at Olympic trials before the Tokyo Games.
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