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Olympic track and field gold medalist Gabby Thomas put a male spectator on blast after she said he yelled personal insults at her and followed her around at the Grand Slam Track meet in
Philadelphia on Sunday.
Thomas explained that she publicly called out the man because she saw him “bragging” about heckling her on social media.
Thomas added that she “wasn’t even going to tweet about it but since he’s bragging.”
“Honestly the heckling is tolerable, it’s following me around the stadium that’s wild,” she wrote in another post.
The man denied Thomas’ claims and called her a liar in a YouTube video posted Monday under the same username — adding that she tweeted about him “for sympathy.”
He also said he does not like Thomas and called her “a Karen.”
In the 11-minute video, he showed clips of him heckling Thomas and saying he wanted Melissa Jefferson-Wooden to win the 200m race.
“Gabby Thomas is scared I see it in her eyes,” the man yelled, before calling her a “choke artist.”
The man was also heard yelling, “Melissa got married this year, got a Black husband, Gabby got a white guy,” referring to Thomas’ fiancé, Spencer McManes, who is white.
At one point, he said Thomas “walked past me and she spoke to me and she said, ‘Hey what’re you doing here? You’re just a heckler… She laughed, smiled and kept walking. That was the last
time I saw Gabby.”
Earlier this year, Thomas shared a PSA on TikTok and explained that she feared she was being stalked by a group of middle-aged men, who allegedly followed her to and from multiple cities in
the United States recently.
The U.S. sprinter made her Sports Illustrated Swimsuit debut in the magazine’s 2025 issue in May.
