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After winning the 400m hurdles at the Grand Slam Track event in Kingston, Jamaica, Alison dos Santos secured a second-straight win in the same event in Miami by capitalizing on a mistake-ridden field.
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Betting site bans individual over heckling incident with Olympic champion sprinter Gabby Thomas
A sports bettor who heckled Olympic champion sprinter Gabby Thomas during a Grand Slam Track event in Philadelphia over the weekend has been banned by the betting site FanDuel Sportsbook. In a statement sent to The Associated Press on Wednesday, FanDuel wrote it 'condemns in the strongest terms abusive behavior directed towards athletes. Threatening or harassing athletes is unacceptable and has no place in sports. This customer is no longer able to wager with FanDuel.' Last weekend, Thomas finished fourth in a 100-meter race won by Melissa Jefferson-Wooden. The bettor wrote in a post on social media that he 'made Gabby lose by heckling her. And it made my parlay win.' He posted a picture of his parlay that had Jefferson-Wooden winning the 100. Thomas, the 200-meter champion at the Paris Games last summer, explained the heckling incident on X. She wrote: 'This grown man followed me around the track as I took pictures and signed autographs for fans (mostly children) shouting personal insults – anybody who enables him online is gross.' Grand Slam Track, a track league launched by Hall of Fame sprinter Michael Johnson this spring, wrote in a statement it was 'conducting a full investigation into the reprehensible behavior captured on video. 'We are working to identify the individual involved and will take appropriate action as necessary. We will implement additional safeguards to help prevent incidents like this in the future. Let us be clear, despicable behavior like this will not be tolerated.' ESPN first reported the bettor had been banned by FanDuel. The Grand Slam Track season wraps up with the fourth and final meet in Los Angeles on June 28-29. The Thomas incident is the latest in a string of stalking and abuse of female athletes. Frida Karlsson, a Swedish cross-country skiing world champion, recently brought her experience with stalking into public view when she went through a trial. A man in his 60s was given a suspended sentence and ordered to pay 40,000 kronor ($4,100) in damages after being convicted of stalking Karlsson for a year and four months, according to Swedish news agency TT. The man, according to the indictment, called Karlsson 207 times, left her voicemails and text messages and approached her, including outside her apartment. In February, police in the United Arab Emirates detained a man who caused British tennis player Emma Raducanu distress by exhibiting ' fixated behavior ' toward her at a tennis tournament. Raducanu had been approached by the man at the Dubai Championships where he left her a note, took her photograph and engaged in behavior that caused her distress, according to the government of Dubai's media office.
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Yahoo
Betting site bans individual over heckling incident with Olympic champion sprinter Gabby Thomas
A sports bettor who heckled Olympic champion sprinter Gabby Thomas during a Grand Slam Track event in Philadelphia over the weekend has been banned by the betting site FanDuel Sportsbook. In a statement sent to The Associated Press on Wednesday, FanDuel wrote it 'condemns in the strongest terms abusive behavior directed towards athletes. Threatening or harassing athletes is unacceptable and has no place in sports. This customer is no longer able to wager with FanDuel.' Advertisement Last weekend, Thomas finished fourth in a 100-meter race won by Melissa Jefferson-Wooden. The bettor wrote in a post on social media that he 'made Gabby lose by heckling her. And it made my parlay win.' He posted a picture of his parlay that had Jefferson-Wooden winning the 100. Thomas, the 200-meter champion at the Paris Games last summer, explained the heckling incident on X. She wrote: 'This grown man followed me around the track as I took pictures and signed autographs for fans (mostly children) shouting personal insults – anybody who enables him online is gross.' Grand Slam Track, a track league launched by Hall of Fame sprinter Michael Johnson this spring, wrote in a statement it was 'conducting a full investigation into the reprehensible behavior captured on video. 'We are working to identify the individual involved and will take appropriate action as necessary. We will implement additional safeguards to help prevent incidents like this in the future. Let us be clear, despicable behavior like this will not be tolerated.' Celera Barnes, Dina Asher-Smith, Gabby Thomas and Melissa Jefferson-Wooden compete in the women's 100m race in Philadelphia, on Sunday. - Roger Wimmer/ESPN first reported the bettor had been banned by FanDuel. The Grand Slam Track season wraps up with the fourth and final meet in Los Angeles on June 28-29. Advertisement The Thomas incident is the latest in a string of stalking and abuse of female athletes. Frida Karlsson, a Swedish cross-country skiing world champion, recently brought her experience with stalking into public view when she went through a trial. A man in his 60s was given a suspended sentence and ordered to pay 40,000 kronor ($4,100) in damages after being convicted of stalking Karlsson for a year and four months, according to Swedish news agency TT. The man, according to the indictment, called Karlsson 207 times, left her voicemails and text messages and approached her, including outside her apartment. In February, police in the United Arab Emirates detained a man who caused British tennis player Emma Raducanu distress by exhibiting ' fixated behavior ' toward her at a tennis tournament. Raducanu had been approached by the man at the Dubai Championships where he left her a note, took her photograph and engaged in behavior that caused her distress, according to the government of Dubai's media office. For more CNN news and newsletters create an account at
UPI
4 days ago
- UPI
FanDuel bans bettor after Gabby Thomas heckled at track event
1 of 2 | Gabby Thomas takes the baton from teammate Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone in the women's 4 X 400m relay during the 2024 Paris Olympics on August 10, 2024. Team USA won the gold medal. FanDuel has banned a bettor who claimed he made money on a parlay after heckling Thomas at a track event in Philadelphia last weekend. File Photo by Paul Hanna/UPI | License Photo June 4 (UPI) -- FanDuel has banned an online bettor after he posted a video of himself heckling Olympic gold medalist Gabby Thomas at a Grand Slam Track event in Philadelphia last weekend, claiming "it made my parlay win." The 28-year-old athlete on Monday posted on X: "This grown man followed me around the track as I took pictures and signed autographs for fans (mostly children) shouting personal insults. Anybody who enables him online is gross." Thomas finished fourth in the 100-meter dash. "FanDuel condemns in the strongest terms abusive behavior directed towards athletes," a FanDuel spokesperson said in a statement to ESPN. "Threatening or harassing athletes is unacceptable and has no place in sports. This customer is no longer able to wager with FanDuel." The bettor, who goes by "mr100kaday" on X, describes himself as "The Track and Field Bully." He posted video of himself heckling Thomas ahead of the race with a screenshot of a $1,000 parlay bet on FanDuel. The bettor called Thomas a "choke artist" and disparaged her husband for being White. "I made Gabby lose by heckling her. And it made my parlay win," the man wrote on X. A parlay bet is a type of wager where two or more individual bets or combined into a single wager. FanDuel, which is owned by Flutter Entertainment, was established in 2009 to offer daily fantasy sports services nationwide. With sports betting approved by the U.S. Supreme Court in May 2018, they expanded into online and retail sportsbooks. The bettor told USA Today he resides in Puerto Rico. He posted Monday on X: "Gabby thomas is a liar. Lying on a fan because they boo you and yell for you to lose to their favorite athlete. May Grand Slam track fail very very quickly." Grand Slam Track, a professional track and field league, is conducting a "full investigation into the reprehensible behavior captured on video" in a statement to ESPN. "We are working to identify the individual involved and will take appropriate action as necessary." Thomas, in a separate post on X on Monday, wrote: "Not the Slam results I hoped for, but when you race as often as I do, you can't win em all. On the bright side, this is the best I have ever ran at this at this point in the season!!" Not the Slam results I hoped for, but when you race as often as I do, you can't win em all. On the bright side, this is the best I have ever ran at this at this point in the season!! I'm so so grateful to everyone who continues to support me on my journey, win or lose- rain or... Gabby Thomas (@itsgabbyt) June 2, 2025 Thomas shared on TikTok earlier this year that she was approached and confronted by the same group of men at airports in several cities. The men had stacks of photos for her to sign but turned aggressive when she declined, she said. At the 2024 Parish Olympics, Thomas won gold in the 200 meters, the 4x100-meter and 4x400-meter relays. In 2021 at the Tokyo Olympics, Thomas earned bronze in the 200 meters and silver in the 4x100-meter relay. In the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Bucharest, Hungary, Thomas took a gold medal in the 4x100-meter relay. Houston Astros pitcher Lance McCullers Jr. said in May that his family was threatened on social media after a game. The threats were tracked to an overseas better by the Houston Police Department. In a study commissioned last year by the NCAA, abuse by "angry sports bettors" is one of the most common types of harassment college athletes receive. They are at least 12% of publicly posted social media abuse. Twenty-seven states and the District of Columbia allow online sports betting statewide.
