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about 2 years ago

🇺🇸 Brittany Brown (@brittanyshamere) has one of the most motivational stories of the Games for Team USA. She’s made the most of her running dreams despite never having won a high school state title, NCAA title or signing with a major sponsor out of college. So many people tend to count her out or forget to mention her in pre-race banter before major races but she ALWAYS shows up when it matters. She’s also been super outspoken about mental health + women’s health. Last night, she earned a bronze medal in the women’s 200m. 🥉 Here’s what she said afterward: “It has been long journey to get back on the track, to get back training. Coming back from injury last year it was ver, very hard,.I think sometimes when athletes have injuries, it's like a mental game that you're playing with yourself: ‘How am I going to get back? It’s an Olympic year, and I’ve missed two or three months of training. Is it actually going to happen?’ I am so thankful for my team, my doctors, Coach Johnson, PTs, mental performance coach, pelvic floor therapist. I have everbody. It’s a community of people that have around me that just made me feel fearless out there. I'm just grateful.” “This one’s for my team, people who all believed in me people, people who doubt me, people who never say my name. I just want people to know that when you say my name, you’re not just saying my name. You’re saying the people’s names that support me. To know that even when people don’t say my name, I have people that love me and support me no matter what. This is for them. To all the women who deal with health issues. To all the women who have endo, who have PCOS, to any athlete that's reached out to me and said: ‘I am not looked at, the coaches don't pay attention to me.’ And I resonate with them because I am one of them. And so this is not for me… it's for all the people that support me. All the dark-skinned girls that look like me. And I'm just so grateful that I can be a vessel. I'm so grateful I can be here and be in this moment and be used. Cause it's not about me, it's about the people who look like me, who resonate with my story, and I'm just so grateful to God that I can be here and be in this moment, to be used for something greater and something different.” 📸 @Justin_Britton #Paris2024 #Olympics #Athletics

ChrisChavez's tweet photo. 🇺🇸 Brittany Brown (@brittanyshamere) has one of the most motivational stories of the Games for Team USA.

She’s made the most of her running dreams despite never having won a high school state title, NCAA title or signing with a major sponsor out of college. So many people tend to count her out or forget to mention her in pre-race banter before major races but she ALWAYS shows up when it matters.

She’s also been super outspoken about mental health + women’s health.

Last night, she earned a bronze medal in the women’s 200m. 🥉

Here’s what she said afterward:

“It has been long journey to get back on the track, to get back training. Coming back from injury last year it was ver, very hard,.I think sometimes when athletes have injuries, it's like a mental game that you're playing with yourself: ‘How am I going to get back? It’s an Olympic year, and I’ve missed two or three months of training. Is it actually going to happen?’ I am so thankful for my team, my doctors, Coach Johnson, PTs, mental performance coach, pelvic floor therapist. I have everbody. It’s a community of people that have around me that just made me feel fearless out there. I'm just grateful.”

“This one’s for my team, people who all believed in me people, people who doubt me, people who never say my name. I just want people to know that when you say my name, you’re not just saying my name. You’re saying the people’s names that support me. To know that even when people don’t say my name, I have people that love me and support me no matter what. This is for them.

To all the women who deal with health issues. To all the women who have endo, who have PCOS, to any athlete that's reached out to me and said: ‘I am not looked at, the coaches don't pay attention to me.’ And I resonate with them because I am one of them.

And so this is not for me… it's for all the people that support me. All the dark-skinned girls that look like me. And I'm just so grateful that I can be a vessel. I'm so grateful I can be here and be in this moment and be used. Cause it's not about me, it's about the people who look like me, who resonate with my story, and I'm just so grateful to God that I can be here and be in this moment, to be used for something greater and something different.”

📸 @Justin_Britton

#Paris2024 #Olympics #Athletics

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🗣️ “You sometimes feel like your world is over in your twenties if you don’t make a team. I hope to show that you can still be in your forties and be good enough to qualify for the Olympic Trials.” 3x Olympian @lolojones is back for her 5th Olympic Trials! Lolo shares her advice on achieving longevity in the sport, how she overcame an injury to be able to toe the starting line today + more ⤵️ INTERVIEW WITH LOLO >> https://t.co/V0hon7sQLM

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