Grand Slam Track investigating alleged abuse of Thomas

Grand Slam Track is investigating nan alleged maltreatment of three-time Olympic golden medallist Gabby Thomas astatine a meet successful Philadelphia complete nan weekend.

The American sprinter posted connected X, external connected Monday to opportunity that a man had followed her astir nan way and past shouted individual insults astatine her arsenic she signed autographs for fans.

"Honestly nan heckling is tolerable, it's pursuing maine astir nan stadium that's wild," Thomas, 28, wrote successful a later post.

She added that "anybody who enables him online is gross".

Responding to a erstwhile Thomas post, a man shared a video of him heckling nan sprinter astatine nan starting statement of nan 100m. Thomas vanished 4th successful nan race, pinch Melissa Jefferson-Wooden coming first.

The man - who posts sports betting videos connected Youtube - said nan consequence helped him triumph money and posted images of his winning bets aft backing Jefferson-Wooden.

"I made Gabby suffer by heckling her. And it made my parlay win," he wrote.

In a connection to The Athletic, external, nan arena organisers said: "Grand Slam Track is conducting a afloat investigation into nan reprehensible behaviour captured connected video.

"We are moving to place nan individual progressive and will return due action arsenic necessary.

"We will instrumentality further safeguards to thief forestall incidents for illustration this successful nan future. Let america beryllium clear, bad behaviour for illustration this will not beryllium tolerated."