Olympian Sha’Carri Richardson has been arrested for rushing offences in Florida.
In line with a number of media studies, monitor star Richardson, 25, was pulled over by authorities on Thursday, January 29 for touring at 104mph by a Central Florida freeway.
A spokesperson for Orange County’s Sheriff’s Workplace instructed WCNC on Thursday that Richardson was “dangerously tailgating” and “touring throughout lanes” to move different drivers.
Richardson, who received gold at 2024 Summer season Olympics in Paris, was booked into Orange County Jail and was charged with harmful extreme rushing at 100 mph or extra, Us Weekly can verify.
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The athlete was held on a $500 bond. It’s unclear whether or not she has since been launched.
Richardson is not any stranger to controversy. In July 2025, the Olympian was arrested at Seattle-Tacoma Worldwide Airport following a home violence incident involving her boyfriend Christian Coleman.
In line with a police report obtained by The New York Occasions on the time, an arresting officer witnessed Richardson allegedly shove Coleman a number of instances because the sprinter walked away from his girlfriend. The incident was additionally allegedly caught on a safety digital camera.
Coleman refused to press costs and “declined to be a sufferer,” per the report.
“For me personally, I really feel prefer it was a sucky state of affairs all spherical,” Coleman instructed reporters on August 3, 2025. “I don’t really feel like she ought to have been arrested. I imply individuals have discussions and feelings and stuff like that.”
Sha’Carri Richardson. AP Picture/Ashley Landis,Pool)
Richardson later took to her Instagram Tales to supply a public apology to Coleman within the wake of her home violence arrest.
“I apologize to Christian. He got here into my life and gave me greater than a relationship however a higher understanding of unconditional love from what I’ve skilled in my previous,” Richardson, 25, wrote through her Instagram Story on Tuesday, August 12. “Because of previous trauma and ache, I used to be blind and blocked off to not solely obtain it however give it. I like him and to him, I can’t apologize sufficient.”
She continued, “My apology needs to be simply as loud as my actions, truthfully louder. To Christian, I like you and I’m so sorry.”
Richardson additionally promised her followers that she was “holding myself accountable” in a separate Instagram Story posted on August 11, 2025.
“I’m taking this time to not solely see myself however get myself a sure degree of assist that total goes to replicate who I actually am in my coronary heart and my spirit and never permitting this second — however accepting this second — to be extra,” she stated.
Richardson earned a silver medal within the 100m on the 2024 Paris Olympics. She positioned second, incomes the silver medal with 10.87. She completed 0.15 behind Saint Lucia’s Julien Alfred, who took dwelling the gold.
She additionally was a part of Group USA’s gold-medal successful 4×100-relay group.
Within the August 2025 version of Vogue, Richardson spoke about how monitor and discipline was a “24/7 way of life” for her and opened up in regards to the sacrifices she’d made to chase her sporting desires.
“Each time I step onto the monitor, I consider all these moments once I was youthful — all these emotions are nonetheless with me, I’m simply that little woman grown up,” she instructed Vogue on the time.. “It’s nearly like a flashback journey, all the things that introduced me to that time. All of the grind, all of the sacrifice. And there’s a sense of, this second is particular as a result of all of that, the great, the dangerous, it’s introduced me right here. And I’m precisely the place I’m speculated to be.”
