When will we see her? While the 2025 outdoor season surges forward, unveiling rising stars and familiar champions shaking off the rust, one lane has remained conspicuously empty. No starting block has felt her pressure. No wind gauge has captured her flight. Sha’Carri Richardson, the reigning world 100m champion and the magnetic force of American sprinting, has yet to make her season debut. With the World Championships in Tokyo looming just four months away, fans have been left refreshing schedules, scanning entry lists, and wondering, Where is she? The wait has been long. The silence? Deafening. But that might be about to change. Because Richardson is set for liftoff! Where? When? Questions? Well, we have answers!

She might be running… For weeks, it was all whispers. Then a flicker. A clue. A name on a list, but no confirmation. Yet now, the signs are undeniable. The world’s most-watched sprinter might finally be stepping into the blocks. Rae Edwards, former Pan American Games bronze medalist, who goes by the name Raes Take TV on X, posted a quiet thunderclap: “I had to do some digging but I found the start list for this weekend’s 100m dash in Japan!”

That list? It included one name fans have been dying to see—Sha’Carri Richardson. The reigning world 100m champion. The lightning bolt in lashes and fire-orange hair. Slated to race in Tokyo. Alongside her? Fellow American sprinters Twanisha Terry and Bree Rizzo.

If it happens, it will mark Richardson’s first-ever professional race on Japanese soil. A poetic twist, considering she never got to run in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Despite qualifying, she was suspended and didn’t travel. The dream was shelved. The headlines exploded. She was absent, but never forgotten.

So, if she lines up this weekend in Tokyo, it won’t just be another 100 meters—it’ll be unfinished business. A race that was years in the making. The last time Richardson raced professionally was at the Diamond League final in Brussels in September 2024. She finished eighth that day, a quiet ending to a season that had seen her soar to Olympic silver in the 100m and gold in the 4x100m relay in Paris.

And yet, as the 2025 track season exploded to life, she remained a ghost. Fans feared injury. Rumors swirled after she publicly denied running the Miramar Invitational, posting bluntly to Instagram: “Lies… I will not be competing at the Miramar Invitational.”

But this? This might be real or not! We will find out.

It wasn’t only Sha’Carri Richardson but Christian Coleman too

It’s not just the women’s 100m heating up in Tokyo—Christian Coleman is on the start list too. Yes, the man with the world’s fastest start is lining up alongside a stacked field that includes Japan’s own Yoshihide Kiryu, Pjai Austin, Christian Miller, Jerome Blake, Abdul Hakim Sani Brown, and Daiki Yanagida.

But for Coleman, 2025 hasn’t exactly gone to plan. He’s been active on the Diamond League circuit, but his season has been rocky. In Xiamen, he ran 10.18 to finish fourth. In Shaoxing, he dipped to 10.13—fifth.

For a man who once owned the 100m world title and still holds the 60m indoor world record (6.34 seconds), that’s not where he wants to be. His starts are still electric, but the top-end speed? That’s where it’s unraveling.