Gabrielle Thomas is one who creates it. She creates it on the track, where she recently won the U.S. Olympic Trials in the 200 meter dash by running the second-fastest 200 meter time ever. Only the immortal Flo Jo has ever run it faster, which Florence Griffith-Joyner did in winning the gold medal in the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, Korea. In a few short weeks, Gabby Thomas will take her shot at Flo Jo's world record and immortality when she competes in the Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.
2020 Olympic Track-and-Field Trials
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Were Gabby Thomas simply a record-setting track-and-field athlete, she would be extraordinary. She is so much more. For starters, she is a graduate of Harvard University from which, in 2019, she earned her degree in neurobiology with a secondary in global health and health policy. These days, when she is not blazing down the track in an eye blink, she is working on her Master's Degree in epidemiology and health care management at the University of Texas, Austin.
An impossibly easy-to-root-for young woman.
-AK
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