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Gabby Thomas showed off the newest Paris Olympic-themed diamond ring she wore to commemorate her success in her second Games edition. The 27-year-old was recently honored as the Grand Marshal at the 2024 New York City Marathon.
Thomas won the 200m dash at the Paris Olympics, the first US woman to achieve so since Allyson Felix in 2012. She also clinched golds as part of the 4x100m and 4x400m relay teams. Following her exploits in the French capital, the Olympian busied herself with off-track activities until she returned to competing at the 2024 Athlos NYC, the final event of her 2024 season.
Gabby Thomas once again graced a sporting event, the 2024 New York City Marathon, but not as a competitor. She was honored as the Grand Marshal of the last of six World Marathon Majors events in 2024.
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Amid the event, she shared the story behind her newest Olympic-themed diamond ring that she customized to honor her monumental Olympic success.
"So this is my Paris 2024 Olympic ring. I'm really excited about it. I had the necklace for Tokyo, and I needed something to commemorate the Paris Olympics. So, I just got this one. It's a little reminder to me that I can kind of, like, accomplish anything and go after all my dreams," she said to NBC Olympics & Paralympics.
Thomas has the Olympic rings inked at the back of her neck. Sharing the story, she said:
"It represents just an amazing era of my life. Whether or not I continued to run and no matter what I did on the track after that, I will always remember this time period and how spectacular it was and how much I've learned and grown from it," she said (via USA Today).
Gabby Thomas shared a frame with Ilona Maher at the 2024 NYC Marathon
Thomas shared the frame with US women's rugby sevens member Ilona Maher, who attended the NYC Marathon as the event's confidence coach. When the former asked whether they would run the marathon in the future, Maher discarded the idea, calling it 'terrible but hilarious'.
However, when Gabby Thomas' 'heck yes' poll received the maximum votes in her Instagram story, she pitched the idea of running the marathon after the 2028 LA Olympics.
"Yikes @ilonamaher maybe after 2028??" the Olympian's caption read.
Gabby Thomas joined the likes of Eileen Gu for Sports Illustrated's Swimsuit issue of the 2025 fold.
