Gabby Thomas

Not a meme, but good for them.

Are you just going around, commenting "not a meme"?
Also, people didn't believe me, but I knew that CPR worked.
- I'm not, but a screenshot of a social media post isn't a meme. Deal with it, and have a nice day.
- If anyone can tell me why I can't post images anywhere on lemmy, I'd appreciate it.

"So, all her life, everyone knows she swims, she medals.
Suddenly, now she's Black. No one knew. She's a swimmer - now she's Black.
What's next, a biologist? Sure.
Nevermind the media and her crowds..."

-- #maga

...I think she's track and field, not swimming, but I honestly can't tell if that's part of the MAGA impersonation.
- track AND field? pick one! are you track, are you field? nobody knows! i saw a photo of her literally on the field just 4 years ago. she didn't say she was track in that photo. she was on a field. now all of a sudden she became a track... person.

"I hope I get this research position, I hear competition is fierce but my advisor recommended me!"

The competition:

Double Masters, gold Olympic medal, and probably younger than me to boot.

I'm not envious, you're envious!
- Excellent non-use of "jealous" 👌
It's just down the hall, around a slight bend to the left. Not sure why there are lines painted in the halls of this building...hope I get there first!

Can she like chill, I'm trying to underachieve over here.

Bro, she makes it easier to underachieve! Like what if you accidentally get a degree or gold medal in the Olympics? Now you can look at her and still get a dose of some sweet sweet imposter syndrome.
- Haha I guess that's true.

Well she should, there’s no real career in being an ex-Olympic athlete unless you win a big contract or get a line of kit with your name on it. Many medals end up for sale because the athlete needs money, or because they’ve passed away and the family can’t decide what to do with it. Having a “what do I do after being an athlete?” plan is pretty important.

That's SuperHero material right there!! I hope she takes a break now and again, too.

Give the rest of us a chance to catch up.

We won’t, but the gesture would be nice.
Then shes doing cutting edge research into treating Alzheimer's and she falls into a vat of formula and shot by a ray gun to turn into...
- OldTimerz! All the powers of an Olympic genius with the respected presence and not-giving-a-damn of an old woman!

Mods plz remove this post, it makes me feel insecure.

Is that her on both pictures?

Yes?
- Must be the lighting and angle then because I could npt see it at first
Is what on both pictures?
- As in is that the same person on both

radio Olympics?

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Yeah let’s celebrate how fast she can run. Obviously that’s the most important thing. /s

Well it is something she can do better than any other epidemiologist. I wonder how she feels about Noah Lyles exposing everyone in his heats to COVID?
I mean Dexter Holland has a PhD in molecular biology, but if you're dropping into a half pipe you're probably more likely to be listening to Smash than to his dissertation on tape...

Different contexts. She can run like stink (as in, fastest in the world), and I don't see how that takes away from her academic achievements.
I mean, she can run really fast. It is impressive, let’s be impressed with this whole, fairly well-rounded person.
- Sure, sure, but how far can she throw a ball?
Not to take away from her academic achievements at all, but: Plenty of people graduate Harvard every year and receive Master degrees.

But we don’t measure who did it best out of all people on earth.

Well, Harvard might, idc. Either way, it’s also more fun to watch a bunch of people running fast than to watch them be really good in science.