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Olympic bell will go in Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris
Track and Field athletes who win gold have been able to ring a bell in the Stade de France. It will soon hang in the Notre Dame.
SAINT-DENIS, France — Gabby Thomas is leaving the 2024 Olympics with the best kind of souvenir: gold.
Gold medals, to be specific. Three of them.
Thomas picked up her third in the finale of Olympic track and field Saturday at Stade de France in the women’s 4×400 relay, as the Americans clocked an American record 3:15.27 to smoke the Netherlands (3:19.50) and Great Britain (3:19.72).
Thomas ran the third leg, taking the baton from Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone and handing off to Alexis Holmes for the anchor. Thomas ran a 49.30 split.
Shamier Little, the only athlete from the final who’d also run in prelims, got the U.S. started with a 49.50 lap.
McLaughlin-Levrone, who set a world record when she won the 400 hurdles on Thursday, turned in a blistering split at 47.70 to give the Americans a huge lead. Thomas followed with 49.30 split before Holmes brought it home with 48.77.
Thomas, 27, also won told in the women’s 200 meter dash and the women’s 4×100. Paris marks the first time she has won Olympic gold medals; in Tokyo she earned a silver (4×100 relay) and bronze (200).
In the prelims Friday, Quanera Hayes, Little, Aaliyah Butler and Kaylyn Brown turned in the fastest qualifying time (3:21.44).
McLaughlin-Levrone, Thomas and Holmes ran in just the final. All seven runners who competed for the U.S. will get medals.
The U.S. women’s have dominated the 4×400 relay, winning eight golds in a row in the event. When Team USA won it in Tokyo it gave the legendary Allyson Felix her 11th Olympic medal, making her the most decorated track and field athlete of all time.
