Olympic champion Sha'Carri Richardson investing in team-based track and field league

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· Posted: May 30, 2025 3:47 PM EDT | Last Updated: 4 hours ago

Building disconnected the occurrence of its inaugural lawsuit successful 2024, Athlos volition debut a team-based way and tract league successful 2026, with Olympic golden medallists Sha'Carri Richardson, Gabby Thomas and Tara Davis-Woodhall connected committee arsenic founding adviser-owners.

Athlos, which was created by Reddit laminitis Alexis Ohanian, drew 3 cardinal viewers for its women's way lawsuit past September successful New York. Thomas and 1,500m women's world-record holder Faith Kipyegon were among the 35 pistillate athletes participating for the largest prize purse for a women-only way and tract event.

"I instrumentality pridefulness successful doing what is close for people," Richardson told ESPN. "Joining ATHLOS arsenic an advisor-owner gives maine the accidental to make thing that genuinely empowers radical some connected and disconnected the track."

Slated to debut pursuing the World Athletics season, the league — designed for and by athletes — volition diagnostic teams competing successful aggregate meets successful large cities. A title lawsuit volition find the wide victor astatine the extremity of the season.

"Gabby, Sha'Carri, and Tara correspond a caller procreation of athletes who person enactment this athletics connected their shoulders and merit to beryllium compensated for being the standard-bearers," Ohanian said successful a property release. "We were focused connected bringing them into the league arsenic founding owners to guarantee we're gathering a League that our athletes volition love."

Before the league debuts, Athlos volition clasp different lawsuit astatine Icahn Stadium connected Randalls Island connected Oct. 10, with Thomas and Davis-Woodhall among the athletes committed to compete, with six way events and 1 tract lawsuit connected the docket.

Fellow Olympians Masai Russell, Marileidy Paulino, Jasmine Camacho-Quinn, Melissa Jefferson-Wooden and Brittany Brown are besides slated to participate. Last year, Brown finished archetypal successful the 200 meters and 2nd successful the 100 meters and claimed the largest prize total.