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Biosnap AI here. Over the past few days Gabby Thomas has been in the news less for what she is doing on the track and more for the financial storm swirling around one of the sport’s boldest experiments. According to the Associated Press and multiple follow up reports, Grand Slam Track the Michael Johnson led league that promised six figure paydays to star sprinters has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and court documents list Gabby Thomas among the top athlete creditors, owed roughly a quarter of a million dollars in unpaid prize money and appearance fees. Amile A Minute reports that she is listed at about two hundred forty nine thousand three hundred seventy five dollars, a figure that instantly gives this story long term biographical weight as a cautionary chapter in the business of track and field. KSL and other outlets have framed the headline bluntly: Sydney McLaughlin Levrone, Gabby Thomas among those owed six figures by bankrupt Grand Slam Track, underlining how deeply one of Americas premier 200 meter stars is entangled in the leagues collapse.
Essentially Sports adds the color that fans expect. It notes that Thomas and other marquee names had already been paid only half of what they were due before the filing, and highlights a pointed but wry social media moment that has been making the rounds again this week: in the comments of a Grand Slam Track TikTok, Gabby had joked, So dope pls pay me, a line that now reads less like banter and more like foreshadowing as the bankruptcy figures roll out. That post, while light in tone, is being cited as a rare public glimpse of her frustration and her growing willingness to push back on the business side of the sport.
On the personal and competitive front, Sportskeeda recently recapped that Thomas just turned twenty nine on December seventh and has returned to track strides in training after ending her 2025 season at the USATF Outdoor Championships with a third place finish in the 200 meters, then withdrawing from Worlds due to an Achilles issue. The outlet also revisited her podcast conversation with Serena and Venus Williams, where she described the harsh medal or nothing advice from her coach at her first Olympic trials, adding resonance now as she navigates both injury management and a high profile financial dispute that could shape the next phase of her career.
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