Sha'Carri Richardson [1] is competing in her first event since the controversy surrounding her Olympics suspension [2] this weekend, and she just underwent a full hair transformation ahead of the comeback. The record-breaking track and field star took to her Instagram this week to re-share a short before-and-after style TikTok video where she mouths the words to a voiceover of Nicki Minaj saying, "I took a couple, you know, I took some time off to rest, and now it's game time, bitches."

The first half of the clip shows Richardson bared-faced and sporting her natural dark, textured hair before her stylist rips off her smock and the video cuts to the athlete wearing full makeup and a wavy, waist-length, platinum blond wig with an icy blue underlayer [3]. "August 21 and I'm not playing nice 👊🏾," she captioned it.

Richardson won the Olympic trials [4] earlier this summer wearing a fiery orange hair colour [5] that she later admitted was chosen for her by her girlfriend [6]. She's since been praised for her statement-making style and joins a growing list of Black women athletes freely expressing themselves through beauty [7] while competing.

Richardson is set to compete in the women's 100m at the Prefontaine Classic [8] this weekend against the three women who took home medals in the event in Tokyo earlier this month, Jamaica's Elaine Thompson-Herah, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, and Shericka Jackson.