"Flo Jo may have passed on but her records are still alive"- Fans react as Vogue calls Sha'Carri Richardson 'world record holder' and 'Olympics star'

Sha'Carri Richardson made it to the cover of Vogue's August issue, ahead of her double Olympic run at the 2024 Paris Olympics. However, when Vogue called her an 'Olympics star' and a 'world record-holder', it didn't sit well with track and field fans, who rallied to call the magazine out.

Richardson, 24, couldn't make it to the 100m roster at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics due to a failed drug test. However, her recent performance at the Olympic Trials booked her Paris Olympic seat on the 100m and 4x100m relay rosters as the top seed.

But before the Summer Games pitched in, Sha'Carri Richardson made it to the Vogue cover of the August issue. Vogue's narration of Richardson's track story was full of factual inaccuracies. It wrongly called her a 'world record-holder' and an 'Olympics star' when she will head to her debut Summer Games. Notably, she has the U20 world record in 100m, according to Olympics.com but it wasn't ratified by World Athletics.

These inaccuracies didn't please track fans, who called out the magazine for providing incorrect information.

One fan called the act of Vogue shameful since the 24-year-old has not attained the title yet.

"I like Sha’Carri a lot but this is a very shameful tweet."

Another fan mentioned the position of Flo-Jo, who holds the world records in the 100m and 200m and still reigns in the track world years after passing.

"World record in what events? Flo Jo may have passed on but her records are still alive."

Another fan called out the magazine and asked it to do better in terms of information.

"Vogue do better! This information is misleading!!!"

Here are some of the other reactions:

"Sha Carri is neither an Olympian nor a World Record Holder... Y'all live in your own world," tweeted a fan.

"@CommunityNotes clean up this caption please," a fan commented.

"Poor journalism. The fake world is real," tweeted a fan.

Sha'Carri Richardson - "But for me, track is my life on a day-to-day basis"

Sha'Carri Richardson talked about her religious practice sessions in Florida's Montverde Academy under coach Dennis Mitchell. To the world, the track gets the spotlight every four years at the Olympics, but to her, it is her everyday life.

"Most people, they only think of track every four years. The Olympics, that’s all there is—those few seconds on TV. But for me, track is my life on a day-to-day basis. Everything I do—what I eat, what I drink, if I stay up too late—it’s all reflected on the track. Every choice. That’s what the world doesn’t see, " Richardson told Vogue.

Sha'Carri Richardson will look to surpass the 100m world record time of Florence Griffith Joyner at the 2024 Summer Olympics.