Grandfather of Olympic athlete Gabby Thomas proud of granddaughter's achievements

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  • @willmaflintstone1496
    @willmaflintstone1496 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

    Can see where she comes from .........solid foundation........what a priveledge to have such a young granddad.....you deserve every inch of your medals Gabby girl ❤

    • @GlendaClarke-ir2cd
      @GlendaClarke-ir2cd 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Privilege! Her father is Jamaican and a former football player at Duke University.

    • @jessicam.4777
      @jessicam.4777 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@GlendaClarke-ir2cd Her mother, who is AA/ Black American also attended Duke University and Emory University..& has a PhD.

    • @GlendaClarke-ir2cd
      @GlendaClarke-ir2cd 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@jessicam.4777 I'm quite aware.

    • @jessicam.4777
      @jessicam.4777 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@GlendaClarke-ir2cd Great.

  • @gperr2716
    @gperr2716 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +55

    Update: she wins 3 gold medals

    • @KCNwokoye
      @KCNwokoye 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Yes she did. She is awesome man!

  • @mmb1487
    @mmb1487 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    What a Gorgeous woman and extremely smart the sky has no limit for Gabby very proud of the way she carries herself go Gabby

  • @Backpackfiles
    @Backpackfiles 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Shoutout to all supportive Grandfathers!

  • @kantricedorsey8142
    @kantricedorsey8142 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    Awww PawPaw is so proud! What a very nice interview and exciting to see such beautiful family ties, because it takes a VILLAGE!

  • @KCNwokoye
    @KCNwokoye 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    Awesome Gabby has won three gold medals. She won another one today.

  • @Marcia-db7qs
    @Marcia-db7qs 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    She is so humble, I'm happy for her

  • @chrismachrismaplunkett8170
    @chrismachrismaplunkett8170 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Congratulations gabby well done u can see that she is from a well grounded family wishing u many more success🎉

  • @suvettagreen9547
    @suvettagreen9547 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Congratulations you made America proud and your family!! I know your church family was putting in those prayers 🙏🙏❤

  • @hazelmiller9007
    @hazelmiller9007 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    How can we not love Gabby...such a beauty inside out j🎉❤

    • @SamuelMorrison-gb3qn
      @SamuelMorrison-gb3qn 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      One of my favorite female runner. She is so low key. Am so happy and proud of her.

  • @ninjaundermyskin
    @ninjaundermyskin 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Gramps, you already know she's going to be successful in everything she applies herself to. I think you might need to buy a warehouse to store the enormous amount of pride you must have right now.

  • @starburstsolaris6805
    @starburstsolaris6805 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    God bless the family.

  • @Tomas-ql9yo
    @Tomas-ql9yo 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    She has it all so proud of this young lady, her family and her friends.
    Also her boyfriend is also great.

  • @starburstsolaris6805
    @starburstsolaris6805 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Amazing achiever.

  • @donnawood3505
    @donnawood3505 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I bet he is so proud of her! ❤

  • @shawna7227
    @shawna7227 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    You can tell she has a great upbringing.

  • @donovanhendricks6815
    @donovanhendricks6815 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    She just won the third.

  • @rerebrook5057
    @rerebrook5057 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Everyone is on code and seems to be media trained in her family. It’s clear to see she was raised around a good community 🙏🏾

  • @ladybirdlee3058
    @ladybirdlee3058 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Aww that is sweet the grandpa is so supportive. ❤

  • @musokemarvunike5081
    @musokemarvunike5081 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Love Thomas

  • @worldhealthrn
    @worldhealthrn 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The problem is trying to pull rank or insinuate disrespect by only claiming Jamaican instead of being able to support all diasporic Africans who have to often overcome many challenges to achieve. So celebrate this woman and stop with the devisiveness

    • @imhereforitall9218
      @imhereforitall9218 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Agreed. I noticed the same thing. That is why I told them they just had to screw up the comment section. They always have to bring their toxicity into the equation. I am starting to think that is an innate trait of theirs.

  • @classaction3314
    @classaction3314 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Congratulations

  • @SamuelMorrison-gb3qn
    @SamuelMorrison-gb3qn 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Standley, you are a King 👑.

  • @lm686
    @lm686 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Congrats

  • @thecomplimentking
    @thecomplimentking 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Cheers!

  • @shaundrakabad6058
    @shaundrakabad6058 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    GABBY 🎉🇱🇷❤️🤍💙🎉🥇🥇🥇

  • @manongdodong1
    @manongdodong1 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    She has the blend of US and Jamaican sprint genes. Best of best pool!

    • @imhereforitall9218
      @imhereforitall9218 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Just had to screw up the comment section. Dang.

  • @worldhealthrn
    @worldhealthrn 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I guess the problem is the mothers who are NOT JAMAICANs are raising the children of Jamaican fathers in the US or europe so people and some of the children like Gabby have less to say about that side

  • @alhenderson7111
    @alhenderson7111 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    She won 3 gold medals not 2

    • @hadtrt3456
      @hadtrt3456 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It depends on the time the interview was done, before or after the 4x400 relay

  • @purple7vi0let
    @purple7vi0let 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    God bless ❤ 1:48

  • @nathanjones9558
    @nathanjones9558 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Facts...
    Everyone except Charri on the US and British track sprint team has some Jamaican connections...
    Gabby. dad is Jamaican...
    Even the St Vincent queen Alfred actually went to high school in Jamaica and compete in the prestigious girl / boy high school championship....

    • @jessicam.4777
      @jessicam.4777 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Melissa, Twanisha, Brittany, Makenzie, nor Sha’Carri have “Jamaican connections”. We can also go down the list for Men’s as well. What are you talking about?!

    • @choochooj9738
      @choochooj9738 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Stop lying on our American athletes, Melissa Jefferson who ran the 1st leg of the 4x100 is Black American born & raised in Georgetown, South Carolina, TT Terry 2nd leg Black American Born & Raised Miami, Florida, 3rd Leg Gabby Thomas born in Atlanta, GA & raised in Florence, Massachusetts, 4th Leg Sha’Carri Richardson born & raised in Dallas, TX. All of them are Southern Black Americans. Although Gabby Thomas didn’t grow up in the South, she was born in Atlanta, GA & her ppl as you just saw are still in the South, Mobile, Alabama. Gabby is the only one that is of both Black American & Jamaican ancestry, yet her nationality is still American. Also, TT Terry has a very distinguishable Floridian Southern accent, that Black Americans can easily pick up on, so don’t know what you talkin about & as far as the British Team is concerned Idk but our ladies are Black Americans🤨

    • @choochooj9738
      @choochooj9738 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@jessicam.4777It’s bcuz they did so poorly this Olympics they are trying to say that now all of a sudden that All our Black American athletes are some how now Jamaican😖😂

    • @ladybirdlee3058
      @ladybirdlee3058 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Always trying to claim American achievements. Gabby is successful because of the community she was raised in which was not Jamaica.

    • @annabrown5712
      @annabrown5712 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@ladybirdlee3058😂😂😂 Right

  • @Unstoppableiam8034
    @Unstoppableiam8034 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    I hear she also has Jamaican ties?

    • @carolperdue7534
      @carolperdue7534 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Her father is Jamaican or Jamaican heritage.

    • @Unstoppableiam8034
      @Unstoppableiam8034 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@carolperdue7534 please do your own research that way you will never forget.

    • @AntoinetteGreen-we1je
      @AntoinetteGreen-we1je 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      She does

    • @Unstoppableiam8034
      @Unstoppableiam8034 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@AntoinetteGreen-we1je I know am just rubbing it in......

    • @iamwinningrightnow
      @iamwinningrightnow 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@Unstoppableiam8034Rub it in mi sey. Her dad is Jamaican.

  • @worldhealthrn
    @worldhealthrn 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Ha! All these commenters arguing, meanwhile the girl is just trying to go eat some Italian pizza 🍕 lol! Leave her be. Very few diasporans in the Americas are "pure bred"

  • @thabangserutla9723
    @thabangserutla9723 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    God s deed

  • @hillarynewman8220
    @hillarynewman8220 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    And in her paternal side... she is a Jamaican😂😂😂😂 how come no one enquires about her father's side!

    • @rasempress9724
      @rasempress9724 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @ou8r122 American 200m national champion Gabby Thomas has credited her Jamaican roots for her speed.
      At a press conference ahead of the Monaco leg of the Wanda Diamond League, Thomas, whose father is Jamaican, made the remark while expressing that she was grateful for the support she gets from Jamaicans.
      “I do really love the fanbase in Jamaica. They’re so amazing and supportive. I make sure that everyone knows that I am Jamaican because I do believe that’s where I get my fast roots from,” I’m not going to sugarcoat it, that’s what it is,” she continued.

    • @DoDahhhhhhhhh
      @DoDahhhhhhhhh 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@ou8r122 Eh its just more proof why Black Americans shouldn't mix with outsiders. Also shes not proud to be Black American. She has 6 ancestors behind her 4 grandparents, 2 parents. 1 out of the 6 are Jamican. Nggas dont push lineage and thats yall problem

    • @kingofdacourt
      @kingofdacourt 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Did Jamaica win a medal in this years olympic track and field?

    • @choochooj9738
      @choochooj9738 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@DoDahhhhhhhhhYou sure about that?? She’s not proud of her Black American side….When she was raised by her Mother Jennifer Randall whom was a single parent that raised both her & her twin brother yet still managed to get her PhD & is a Professor of Psychometrics & Test Development at the University of Michigan. Gabby has already acknowledged this much in interviews. Here’s an excerpt from one of those interviews,
      “Watching her be a single parent without two pennies to rub together and working her way up and to being what she is now, a successful Professor living out her dreams and starting a non-profit to help people get an education…I mean that was a lot to watch.” Gabby added
      “It really showed what true work ethic was and it showed me you can achieve your dreams with hard work and that anything is possible.”
      Gabby Thomas
      StyleCaster-Sophie Hanson
      So before you go hyper inflate this whole JM thing, give credit where credit is due & not disrespect her Black American Mother & her extended family to include her Grandparents whom were a major part of her upbringing & success🤨😖

    • @DoDahhhhhhhhh
      @DoDahhhhhhhhh 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @choochooj9738 She the one going around hollering about being Jamican. She not even half Jamican, she a quarter or less. So miss me with that paragraph. Maybe Black Americans need to teach more ethnic pride instead of mixing with all thesa foreigners

  • @worldhealthrn
    @worldhealthrn 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Leave her be. Very few diasporans in the Americas are "pure bred". Including Jamaicans...so stop starting shiz!!! Just be happy for her as an individual and diasporan.

  • @ericpkingston1327
    @ericpkingston1327 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Ties to Jamaica also 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲😂😂

  • @cassetgelin7780
    @cassetgelin7780 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Most of the black athletes have island ties; Thomas, Richards, Richardson among others men and women with British slavemasrers names

    • @darylsledge1456
      @darylsledge1456 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      you all want for everybody to be of carib descent. that's simply not the case.

    • @juniorreid9583
      @juniorreid9583 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I heard Gabby Thomas and Kamala Harris has Jamaican connection is it true ?

    • @ssjraikage7874
      @ssjraikage7874 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      not really. most of the black athletes in US are african americans

    • @AntoinetteGreen-we1je
      @AntoinetteGreen-we1je 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​yup❗️....they both have Jamaican fathers

    • @willawentertainment
      @willawentertainment 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Um, where do you think the white slave masters in the U.S came from?

  • @imagineme6406
    @imagineme6406 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Beautiful Genetics. Black don't Crack

  • @rasempress9724
    @rasempress9724 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Gwane tru Gabby…Jamaica to the worl’

    • @FOXY23--
      @FOXY23-- 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Please let Gabby be. She is not Jamaican .

    • @Unstoppableiam8034
      @Unstoppableiam8034 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@@FOXY23--her father is Jamaican..... So it's a win for Jamaica..... Jamaica to the world.

    • @rasempress9724
      @rasempress9724 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@FOXY23-- lol..ah sah…di young lady is proud of her Jamaican heritage….we embrace her as we do our African bredrin n sistren…we run tings, tings no run we…feh

    • @lockvegas05
      @lockvegas05 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@FOXY23-- ​Exactly ! They act if she was raised with her Jamaican Family and her Black American family. She was raised as a Black American but some How she is Jamaican! GTFOH🤣🤣🤣

    • @darylsledge1456
      @darylsledge1456 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      if a dark barks in patois, you all will be shouting out the dog for being Jamaican.

  • @kevinmoriarty6642
    @kevinmoriarty6642 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    American success story couldn't be more awnstruck by her talent. Congrats to her.

  • @worldhealthrn
    @worldhealthrn 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wow so now even St. Vincent's gold medalist has to bow to Jamaica? Give others credit when due. Be more self aware of your extreme ethnocentrism...its akin to any other type of supremacy thinking

  • @cashrjr23
    @cashrjr23 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Same nose and jowls

  • @ApostleMichaelWelsh
    @ApostleMichaelWelsh 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Fake news Gabby Thomas Grand father is a Jamaican

    • @sequillarochelle4044
      @sequillarochelle4044 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      You do understand that everyone has a grandfather on BOTH PARENTS SIDE...GO SIT YOUR BEHIND DOWN!!! SMH

    • @patriciarodney970
      @patriciarodney970 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      😅😅​@@sequillarochelle4044

    • @Wells-ws7mw
      @Wells-ws7mw 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@sequillarochelle4044 That is it teach dem.

    • @choochooj9738
      @choochooj9738 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Gabby Thomas Mother is Black American, that was her Mother’s Father, so that is her Maternal Grandfather
      😖🤦🏾
      Did you hear a Jamaican accent?? Her Mothers ppl are from the South, they were in Mobile, Alabama buddy. Yal need to quit trying so hard to claim American athletes….Gabby is of both Black American & Jamaican ancestry. Gabby was born in Atlanta, Georgia that’s about as Black American as it gets🤦🏾😂😂

  • @trudykroll7429
    @trudykroll7429 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    And she has ties to JAMAICA! HER GRANDFATHER IS JAMAICAN ON HER FATHER SIDE. WHY YALL FORGET THAT??? WITHOUT US YALL ARE NOTHING!

    • @choochooj9738
      @choochooj9738 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yal are insufferable….Gabby Thomas was raised by her Mother, Jennifer Randall whom was a single parent that managed to raise both her & twin brother yet still obtained her PhD & is a Professor of Psychometrics & Test Development at the University of Michigan. She credits her Mother for showing her good work ethics & that hard work pays off. Gabby has already acknowledged this much in interviews. She was also the one to encourage Gabby to run track, so give credit where credit is due.
      How you suppose we would be nothing without yal when we have some of the best athletes in the world & not just in Track. Our 4x100 women’s relay team All Southern Black American women,
      Melissa Jefferson Born & Raised Georgetown, SC🇺🇸
      TT Terry Born & Raised Miami, FL🇺🇸
      Sha’Carri Richardson Born & Raised Dallas, TX🇺🇸
      Gabby Thomas was Born in the South Atlanta, GA, she is the only one that has some Jamaican ancestry. Btw, Shelly Ann Fraser Pryce said her fiercest competition was Carmelita Jeter, whom is also Black American, Born & Raised in Southern California. Don’t know if you recall Carmelita Jeter beat SFP a few times & vice versa, they would still be each other’s greatest competition if not for a career ending injury that caused Jeter to retire from track. So we don’t need any help in the athletic department, we have done quite well for ourselves as far back as the 1930’s with Jessie Owens at the Berlin Olympic Games & Wilma Rudolph with the 1960 Rome Olympic Games😉☺️🇺🇸

    • @trudykroll7429
      @trudykroll7429 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@choochooj9738 go watch gabby interview when she spoke about her Jamaican side and her track involvement before you start typing! And Jeter beat Shelly in 2011 ONLY! NOT a few times and that is when she shelly was injured as well so get a dam grip! Sanya richard ross is Jamaican born and grown and become a dam traitor! And I wont even go through the list of Jamaicans who impacted yall lives. U go do u own research for that! What i really should have said is yall are nothing without drugs! Because yall can never actually compete on a level plane field! So piss off and run gu cry to daddy. Dont even know why you calling Shaccari name who masks. Kmt

    • @choochooj9738
      @choochooj9738 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@trudykroll7429You must be new to track bcuz Carmelita Jeter has beaten SFP more than once, they have raced each other multiple times in the 100m- She beat SFP at the 2011 World Championships in Daegu, South Korea, 2012 Aviva Grand Prix, 2012 Wanda Diamond League, 2009 Jeter held the fastest woman alive title 10.64 for 10yrs & a few more times she’s beaten SFP, if not mistaken, so they have gone back & forth, that’s why SFP herself said Jeter was her fiercest competition her entire career, not just one race genius.
      Also, you only mentioned Sonya Richard’s Ross as JM, she is actually fully JM & has been retired for years whilst Gabby, her Father is only half Jamaican & was raised by her Mother but yal gonna hype the JM part up. The facts are, our athletes have always been Black Americans & present day they are as well, so naming one, or two that has some Caribbean ancestry in No Way Shape, or Form represent our entire team. Yal JMs luv to embellish💩& exageratee things. It’s obvious to the world that Yal are sore losers bcuz Yal did so terrible this Olympics, now you trying to claim American athletes, now all of sudden All our athletes are Caribbean & when you get your behinds whooped, you say everybody using PEDS, again sore losers, get Yal team together & stop whining, it’s not a good look for JM🤦🏾😖😂😂
      Go Team USA They made us Proud😉✊🏾🏃🏾‍♀️🇺🇸

    • @choochooj9738
      @choochooj9738 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@trudykroll7429Forgot to add Carmelita Jeter beat SFP at the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene, Oregon 2011, like I said she was SFP greatest competition & they would still be dueling it out today if not for a career ending injury that caused Carmelita Jeter to retire. Also, her brother played for the Sacramento Kings NBA team, so Black Americans have always been just as athletic😉

    • @trudykroll7429
      @trudykroll7429 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@choochooj9738 i guess they deleted my comment for you to be writing about 2011 again