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‘It’s all in the skin,’ U.S. sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson compares reaction to her positive drug test and that of Russian skater Kamila Valieva

There’s something up when a positive drug test before the Olympics leaves a Black athlete on the sidelines and a white athlete potentially gliding towards a gold medal, U.S. track and field star Sha’Carri Richardson has suggested.

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Responding to a USA Today article, Richardson characterizes the discrepancy in how she was treated in advance of the summer Olympics in Tokyo compared to Russian figure skating phenom Kamila Valieva at the Beijing Olympics as a “slap in the face.”

In a tweet, the sprinter sensation note: “The only difference I see is I’m a Black young lady.”

Richardson, a medal favourite for the last Summer Games, was

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