Sha’Carri Richardson’s surge to the gold in the women’s 100m chimed perfectly with the “Witness the Wonder” publicity for the athletics world championships. Something very wondrous had just been wtinessed. The 23-year-old American scraped into the final as one of the fastest losers and was thus shoved out into a galaxy far, far away from the white heat of the competition.
And for 70 metres on the third night of action, Shericka Jackson and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce were conducting their very own Jamaican national championships.
