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STEPHEN Nartey
BY Stephen Nartey, 4:52pm January 30, 2025,

Olympian Gabby Thomas expresses concerns about being stalked by group of men at airports

STEPHEN Nartey
by Stephen Nartey, 4:52pm January 30, 2025,
Photo: TikTok/Gabby Thomas

Olympic gold medalist Gabby Thomas shared a PSA on TikTok, expressing concerns about being stalked by a group of middle-aged men who allegedly followed her across multiple U.S. cities.

Thomas described a “really scary” incident at an airport where the men became “aggressive and hostile” after she refused to sign multiple photos of herself.

“I need advice right now because I fear that I’m being stalked and I genuinely don’t know what to do or who to go to,” Thomas, who won three gold medals at the 2024 Paris Games, began. “At this point, every time I travel I’m afraid that these men, it’s three to six of them, middle-aged, are going to show up and harass me. And it doesn’t matter what city — they’ve come when I was traveling to and from Chicago, they’ve come when I was traveling to and from Miami and they have my flight information,” she said, as reported by the New York Post.

“And they show up either at the front door of the airport at the correct concourse or they show up at my gate, which means they have flight tickets and they get past security and all that. And they show up and they ask me to sign a bunch of photos and picture of me, like 40 of them. I don’t know what they’re doing with them, probaby selling them, I don’t care.

“What scares me is that they have my flight information, even when I don’t even know what time I’m flying out sometimes. I don’t tell anyone my flight information. I’ve changed all my email passwords. I don’t know if they’re hacking me. But they get really aggressive and hostile if I say no and when I’m by myself, it’s really scary. They got really hostile with my boyfriend [Spencer McManes] yesterday. It’s not even airline specific, but I don’t know how they’re getting my flight information and but it’s really starting to freak me out.”

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Thomas, who has been dating former Yale quarterback McManes since 2022, shared two videos showing men she claimed were “stalking” her at Chicago airport. The posts are part of her efforts to raise awareness about the unsettling encounters.

“They’re stalking me at O’Hare. I got your faces,” Thomas said in the video after a TikTok user suggested she should film her suspected stalkers.

Thomas described the two men allegedly stalking her at Chicago airport—one wearing a U.S. Army hat and another in a gray hat who covered his face with a Chicago Bears sweatshirt. She said the men lied when she asked how they obtained her flight information.

“They make up a story. They say, ‘Oh, I saw you here, so I figured you were flying back.’ And the stories don’t make sense,” the American sprinter said. “They just get really aggravated and easily angry so I don’t talk too much, I just walk away.”

“I don’t get why people can’t respect privacy. I really don’t get it. I don’t like feeling unsafe traveling. I don’t know what to do.”

Thomas expressed uncertainty about how to handle the stalking incidents, noting difficulties in reporting the matter since the encounters have occurred in multiple locations.

“Do I go to the police or airport security?” she asked. “It’s like a multi-city thing, so it’s like I can’t just got to the Austin police … I don’t know where these people live.”

As of Wednesday, Thomas had not provided any further updates on the stalking situation.

The Olympic sprinter, who gained significant attention following her gold medal at the Paris Games last summer, was recently featured in Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list and in Vogue.

Thomas will also make her debut in the 2025 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue set to release in May.

Last Edited by:Mildred Europa Taylor Updated: January 30, 2025

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