How Beats by Dre Doubled Down on Sha'Carri Richardson

As the sprinter's Olympic dreams evaporated, her partnership with Beats and Apple Music only got bigger

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Sha’Carri Richardson, with long, newly dyed orange hair flowing behind her like flames, dusted the competition at the Olympic trials in mid-June in Oregon. The 21-year-old sprinter finished the 100-meter race in 10.86 seconds, qualifying for her first Olympics and earning the “fastest woman in America” title.

It was at that televised moment that track and field superfan and rapt viewer Larry Jackson, Apple Music’s global creative director, started mulling a collaboration between the instantly famous runner and Apple-owned Beats by Dre. 

“She

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