Sha’Carri Richardson, Alen Hadzic and our unending forgiveness for white male athletes

[ASFN Admin]

The differing treatment of a black female athlete and a white male on in the run-up to the Olympics show the double standards that permeate sport Sha’Carri Richardson and Alen Hadzic have been much discussed in the early stages of the Olympics. Photograph: Getty Images In seemingly less time than Sha’Carri Richardson’s world-stopping, 100m triumph at the US trials, the matter of her Olympic-disqualifying suspension for a positive marijuana test has transformed routine sports talk fodder into a f

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