Sha’Carri Richardson—a woman fast enough to run on water—made plenty of headlines in Paris, but the Olympic gold medalist is going viral yet again for another recent race.
Recently, content creator Jen Jean-Pierre was at the track shooting a commercial with Richardson when her husband and 4-year-old daughter, Tegan, came to visit her.
When Tegan saw Richardson, whom she described only as “the nice lady with the mermaid hair,” she knew she wanted to challenge her to a race, so she walked up to her and did just that. Jean-Pierre says she has instilled in her daughter a willingness to speak up at an early age.
“My biggest accomplishment as Teagan’s mom: instilling a confidence in her to speak up for her wants and needs no matter what,” Jean-Pierre says in the caption of a video posted to Instagram. “As women, especially Black women, our voices are RARELY heard, our wants are rarely catered to, and our needs [typically] go unmet,” she continued. “So I teach her to speak with confidence and assertiveness.”
