2024 has been the year of Gabby Thomas. Her three gold medals at the Paris Olympics made her the most decorated track athlete of the 2024 Games and instantly catapulted her into mega-star status. Since then, she’s modeled at Fashion Week and sat courtside at WNBA games, and she’s set to be one of the featured athletes on the second season of Netflix’s Sprint.
Despite all of her accomplishments, Thomas still had one box to check before her hectic but rewarding year came to close: organize a lucrative women’s track event. So when she received a raucous ovation from an American crowd at Athlos NYC, the event that she helped produce, it came as no surprise—but that didn’t make it any less sweet.
