Sha’Carri Richardson: The world champion 100m presents public apologies to his boyfriend Christian Coleman after his arrest of domestic violence | Athletics news

Warning: This article contains details that some readers can find painful and overwhelming; Sha’Carri Richardson was arrested at an airport in Seattle in July for an accusation of domestic violence for having allegedly assaulted his American friend and compatriot Sprinter Christian

Sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson addressed his recent arrest of domestic violence in a video on social networks and apologized to his boyfriend Christian Coleman.

Richardson published a video on her Instagram account on Monday evening in which she said that she was putting herself in a “compromised situation”. She apologized to Coleman on Tuesday morning.

“I love him and for him, I cannot apologize enough,” wrote the defending world champion of the 100m in all the upper letters on Instagram, adding that his excuses “should be just as noisy” as his “actions”.

“To Christian, I love you and I am really sorry,” she wrote.

Richardson was arrested on July 27 for an offense of domestic violence in the fourth degree for allegedly assaulted Coleman at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. She was detained at South Correctional Entity to monks, Washington, for more than 18 hours.

Richardson participated in the American championships only a few days after his arrest

His arrest took place a few days before courting the 100 meters at the American championships in Eugene, Oregon.

In the video, Richardson said that she practiced “self-reflection” and refuses to “flee but will face everything that comes to me.”

According to the police report, an airport officer was informed by a supervisor of the Security Administration Transportation (TSA) of a disturbance between Richardson and his boyfriend, Coleman, 100m 2019 world champion.

The officer examined the images of the camera and observed that Richardson held out his hand with his left arm and grabbed Coleman’s backpack and pulled it. Richardson then seemed to enter Coleman’s path with Coleman trying to move around her. Coleman was pushed into a wall.

Later in the report, he said that Richardson seemed to launch an object on Coleman, the TSA indicating that he was perhaps headphones.

A report on the airport incident said Christian Coleman “ refused to be a victim ” ‘

The officer said in the report: “I was told that Coleman did not want to participate more in the investigation and I refused to be a victim.”

The Associated Press tried to contact Coleman to comment.

Richardson wrote that Coleman “entered my life and gave me more than a relationship but a better understanding of unconditional love of what I have experienced in my past.”

She won the 100M at the 2023 world athletics championships in Budapest and finished with the money at the Paris Olympic Games last summer. She also helped the 4x100m relay to an Olympic gold.

She did not participate in the Tokyo Olympic Games in 2021 following a positive marijuana test with American Olympic trials.

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