Gabby Thomas featured in The Athletic: "The U.S. track star with a bigger goal beyond Olympic medals"

Because being a pro runner is substantially less than a full-time job.

This is clearly false, simply based on the fact we rarely see world class runners who do not treat it as a full time job.

I thought she was a gymnast who was celebrated for freaking out at the Olympics

My queen already has a PHD in test dodging 🙌

Christine Ohuruogu was one of the first people to get suspended under the (at the time new) whereabouts system, and she was a UCL (top London uni) graduate (and went back there for a Law degree after athletics)

Also, you're probably wrong in the sense that, athletes that are "smart" enough are probably getting 2 missed tests a year and going as close to the gills as they can. There of course would be dopers with 0 missed tests but I'm sure lots of athletes accumulate one intentionally (as to get the max dopage possible before getting risky) and then become more careful.

Side note, you people really need to get over her (rescinded) whereabouts suspension...

Was she really that naive? If that's true, it's amazing.

I'm supposed to believe that a Harvard sprinter who competed in the Olympic Trials in 2016, who broke the NCAA indoor 200 record and won NCAAs in 2018 and who was so good she competed in Diamond League meets in Lausanne, Rabat, London, Birmingham and Brussels in 2018 before promptly turning pro that October, didn't know that there was something called a World Champs?

I'll try to reach out someone at Harvard or to Futterman to see if that was a mistake that slipped in as that's wild to me.

PS. I texted the author Matthew Futterman and he confirmed that is what she told him.

Well Gabby got her 2, as we all know. 3 only if we don't trust her friends as witnesses.

I texted the author Matthew Futterman and he confirmed that is what she told him.

you really are a dumbarse.

at lease she didn't gorge herself on boar's guts.

TBH, there are years where the results of nationals don't yield a Team USA group (i.e., the years with no Olympics or World Champs), so maybe she thought it was that kind of an off year.

She does have a history though of talking without thinking it through. Not long after she went pro, she shared details about her NB contract with her hometown newspaper (including money values), but about 48 hrs after publication, the article was edited to remove the money values. Another time in the same period, she went on a long twitter rant over Harvard facilities and her teammates that she ended up deleting after a few hours (I remember her ranting how no one else on the team took athletics seriously and how her teammates couldn't look at bigger things beyond conference meet [i.e., national championships], and how the summer housing facility was crappy and such... it turned me off from liking her for awhile because she came off as spoiled and whiny).

who?

She is an inspiration for me and probably others to work harder--she's accomplished more in her short life than many have in a lifetime!

I read the article and felt inspired and inadequate at the same time. She must be very good at time management and/or never sleep.

I saw this too Rojo! Interesting statement that also dovetails with what you posted.

She has an undergraduate degree in neurobiology from Harvard, where she also studied global health and policy, plus a master’s degree in public health and epidemiology from the University of Texas. The running stuff was supposed to be long over by now. Halfway through college, she didn’t even know professional running was a thing. She thought her heroes, women like Allyson Felix and Sanya Richards-Ross, sort of disappeared for three years between Olympic Games.

Especially a sprinter

she could be telling the truth, or spinning a convenient, interesting narrative. there are plenty of people out there who do it. a lot of people out there love telling stories. most of us probably have friends like that.