{"id":865,"date":"2021-07-07T16:14:15","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T20:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/?p=865"},"modified":"2021-07-07T16:14:15","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T20:14:15","slug":"shacarri-richardson-apology-on-live-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/shacarri-richardson-apology-on-live-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Sha&#8217;Carri Richardson Apology on Live TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The apology from athlete Sha\u2019Carri Richardson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnewyork.com\/news\/sports\/shacarri-richardson-speaks-out-about-failing-drug-test-ahead-of-tokyo-olympics\/3136865\/\">on the Today show last week<\/a> offers a glimpse into how hard it is to give a good live unscripted public apology. Richardson was banned from competing in this year&#8217;s Olympics in her signature event, the 100-meter dash, because she used marijuana before the qualifying event in Oregon last month. She explained that, a few days prior to the event, a reporter informed her that her biological mother had just died. It sounds like her relationship with her mother was complicated, and this news was \u201cnerve-shocking.\u201d So she used marijuana, which is legal in Oregon but is against Olympic rules, to cope with her pain.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview on the Today show with Savannah Guthrie on July 2, Richardson apologized:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to take responsibility for my actions. I know what I did. I know what I\u2019m supposed to do. I know what I\u2019m allowed not to do. But I still made that decision. I\u2019m not making an excuse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Richardson struggles not to blame the reporter: \u201cWho are you to tell me this news? But he was just doing his job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She also struggles not to defend herself: \u201cPeople don\u2019t understand what it\u2019s like \u2026 Well, people do, we all have our different struggles\u2026 Who are you \u2013 who am I, to tell you how to cope?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She said, \u201cI apologize,\u201d but it wasn\u2019t clear whether she was apologizing for using marijuana, or for not finding a different way to deal with her pain. She asked her fans not to judge her, reminding them, \u201cI\u2019m human, I\u2019m just like you, I just run a little faster.\u201d She acknowledged that she let down her fans, and promised it won\u2019t happen again \u2013 both elements of a good apology.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The apology from athlete Sha\u2019Carri Richardson on the Today show last week offers a glimpse into how hard it is to give a good live unscripted public apology. Richardson was banned from competing in this year&#8217;s Olympics in her signature event, the 100-meter dash, because she used marijuana before the qualifying event in Oregon last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apologies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":867,"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions\/867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abfifer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}