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Olympic sprinter Christian Coleman refuses to press charges against Olympic gold medalist Sha’Carri Richardson for assaulting him at Washington state’s SeaTac Airport last weekend.

Sha’Carri, 25, was arrested on domestic violence charges on July 27 and released on July 28.

She is accused of shoving Coleman, pushing him multiple times, and throwing headphones at him at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.

She was charged with fourth-degree domestic violence and held in jail for more than 18 hours, TMZ reports.

As the news spread online over the weekend, fans wondered what goes on behind closed doors if that’s how she abuses him in public.

But Coleman, 29, rushed to defend his sweetheart. The mild-mannered sprinter said Richardson has “a lot of emotions” trapped inside her.

“She’s a human being, and a great person,” he said. “She has a lot of things going on, a lot of emotions and forces going on inside of her that not only I can’t understand, but nobody can. She’s one of one. And I’m one of one too.”

Coleman’s description of Richardson’s mental state sounds similar to the one given by Richardson’s ex-girlfriend, Jamaican hurdler Janeek Brown.

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Richardson accused Brown of domestic violence.

“I was in a relationship with a Jamaican athlete that never cared about me from jump,” Sha’Carri wrote in a social media post in 2022.

“I was abused and stole from yet protected her from the judgment of her country & family while they dragged me,” she added. “I had to deal with homophobic [sic] and so much more that I’m still healing from.”

Brown said in an interview: “I was abusive once that there’s physical evidence of. And we moved on, and even after then I was trying to move on from that, we still got nowhere.”