Gabby Thomas reveals unique quality that led coach Tonja Buford-Bailey to initially not recognize her during voice guess challenge

American track athlete Gabby Thomas was recently seen in a fun session with her coach, Tonja Buford-Bailey. This comes amid her preparations for the upcoming 2025 season.

This session featured several of Thomas' track counterparts, such as Tamara Clark and Paris Olympics silver medalist Cyrena Samba-Mayela. During this off-time, Thomas and her teammates played a game in which they covered their coach's eyes, who in turn had to recognize the athlete by their voice.

As the game proceeded, Buford-Bailey correctly identified most of the names except Thomas as she changed her voice a bit while referring to the coach. The coach, in turn, thought that Thomas was Jessica Wright. Thomas took to her Instagram handle to share the video of this game.

One of the fans enquired in the comment section of the post about how the coach did not manage to identify the Olympic champion. To which, Thomas revealed her quality of imitating her teammates. She said:

"I know my teammates I am very good at imitating them."

Screenshot of Gabby Thomas' reply to an user (Image via: Thomas Instagram)

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Gabby Thomas opens up about her collegiate days

Thomas competing in the Women's 100m semis on the second day of the 2020 US Olympics Track and Field trials (Image via: Getty Images)

Gabby Thomas recently reminisced about her collegiate and NCAA days before turning pro. As a collegiate athlete for Harvard University, Thomas won several accolades such as second place in the 200m event of the 2018 NCAA Championships. Notably, she also won the 200m race at the 2018 NCAA Indoor event.

Thomas shared that she didn't enter the NCAA circuit as a favorite and no one paid heed to her presence. The 200m Olympic champion also remarked that she eventually got her accolades in the circuit and also mentioned she had to work hard consistently to achieve it.

Thomas said (via Why not me? with Mike Jackson, 27:01 onwards):

"I didn't come in the NCAA as a favorite, nobody was talking about me in the NCAA and I figured it out right. If I can do it, I genuinely think anybody can do it, if you come from a small white town in Western Massachusetts with very mediocre times and win NCAA. It takes so much consistency and you have to want to do it and so if you don't want to do it in track, you are not going to end up doing it."

Gabby Thomas also turned pro in her career in the same year (October 2018) she became the NCAA indoor champion.