Gabby Thomas can now add gold medalist to her resume.  

That is Olivia Miller’s fourth story on the Paris Olympics. Her story this morning is on Gabby Thomas, who gained the 200m Olympic gold! Olivia Miller wrote every day columns for RunBlogRun on the current 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials. 

Gabby Thomas can now add gold medalist to her resume, by Olivia Miller 

Thomas had one among her finest begins within the ladies’s 200m ultimate on the Stade de France on Aug 6.

Coming across the bend, she was within the lead, the place she would keep. There was no query who could be successful the ladies’s 200m ultimate. Thomas crossed the end line at 21.83, roughly two-hundredths of a second behind her private finest. She instantly started bawling.

“I couldn’t imagine it,” Thomas mentioned. “I by no means would have imagined in my wildest desires that I’d grow to be an Olympic gold medalist, and I’m one. I’m nonetheless form of wrapping my head round that.”

Fellow American Brittany Brown took residence bronze with a time of twenty-two.20.

Julien Alfred of St. Lucia completed second with a time of twenty-two.08. She gained her nation its first-ever medal simply days in the past when she beat Sha’Carri Richardson within the ladies’s 100m.

Now, she has earned the second medal for the nation of St. Lucia.

This lineup regarded totally different than anticipated. Earlier this week, Shericka Jackson of Jamaica pulled out of her 100m race, citing well being issues. Then, simply days earlier than she was set to run the 200m, she introduced she could be competing, stunning followers. The 2023 World Champion was a particular gold medal contender; she has the second-fastest time ever run by a girl within the 200m (21.41).

Thomas has been ready for this second since successful bronze in Tokyo.

“You put together for this second, and also you prepare so exhausting for this second, however when it really comes, it’s indescribable. “

A part of that preparation, Thomas says, was competing on the world championships.

“I feel doing world championships final yr was big for me. I wanted to be in a really high-stakes, strain surroundings. That was a part of the plan, in order that I may come to Paris and execute when there are 80,000 individuals watching.”

She is the primary American since Allyson Felix (2012) to win the 200m on the Olympics. Now she ushers in a brand new period in American sprinting.