AUSTIN, Texas — There was a moment on a recent random Wednesday, as the world champion sprinter and Olympic medalist Gabrielle Thomas juggled emails about a meeting she had to run at a volunteer health clinic and readied for a voiceover for a commercial with a blue-chip sponsor and figured out the logistics of an upcoming weight-training session, when she had something of an epiphany.
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“I really did not perceive my life being the way it is now,” she said, looking up from her phone as she sipped a coffee at a cafe.
She’s not kidding.
Pretty much everything Thomas has accomplished in track, the two Olympic medals in Tokyo in 2021,
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