PARIS — Gabby Thomas streaked across the finish line, threw her hands to her head and hollered to the Paris heavens. It was the kind of roar that needed no soundtrack, which was good, considering the 80,000-plus teeming fans inside Stade de France made it impossible to hear anything through their sustained applause. But one look at Thomas’s face, her gold-medal winning face, and you could feel the emotion pouring forth.
Gabby Thomas becomes the first Team USA track athlete since Allyson Felix in 2012 to secure 200m gold! 🙌🇺🇸 #ParisOlympics pic.twitter.com/wAvBUnsXxI “You prepare for this moment, and you train so hard for this moment, but when it actually comes, it’s indescribable,” Thomas said after running away with the 200-meter gold medal, her time of 21.
83 beating silver medalist (and 100-meter gold medalist) Julien Alfred by 0.25 seconds. “I couldn’t believe it.
I never would have imagined in my wildest dreams that I would become an Olympic gold medalist, and I am one. I’m still kind of wrapping my head around that. It was the happiest moment of my life.
” It was like nothing she’d ever imagined. It was exactly as she’d imagined it. Advertisement Mission accomplished for Gabby Thomas with a GOLD medal in the 200m! #ParisOlympics pic.
twitter.com/O7wQjNquCi To watch Gabby Thomas run a sprint is to watch fluidity in motion. She moves with these long, purposeful strides, nary an extraneous movement allowed.
Every step is planned with precision. .