The US duo have prominent roles once again in the series, while the Netflix cameras also focus on the likes of Julien Alfred and Letsile Tebogo
The Paris Olympics might’ve ended but fans will soon get a behind the scenes look at the Games.
SPRINT, the track and field documentary series that premiered on July 2, is back again for its second instalment and it will be released on November 13.
The trailer for the series shows a number of athletes preparing for the Olympics and how they battled it out for a gold medal in the French capital.
The second series of SPRINT focuses on: Fred Kerley, Gabby Thomas, Kishane Thompson, Julien Alfred, Letsile Tebogo, Melissa Jefferson, Twanisha Terry, Marcell Jacobs, Kenny Bednarek, Shericka Jackson and Oblique Seville.
Quite a few of them feature in the trailer and Lyles and Gabby Thomas are just two of those athletes.
Men’s 100m final (Getty)
Gabby Thomas Won The Olympic
Lyles won the Olympic 100m gold medal in scintillating fashion at the Stade de France, clocking 9.79 to beat Thompson by just five-thousandths of a second.
In the 200m it was a slightly different story, with the US athlete – who later revealed he had Covid – finishing second behind Tebogo.
The Motswana also features heavily in the series, who won his country’s first ever gold medal at the Olympics with that victory over half a lap.
Tebogo clocked an incredible 19.46, which put him fifth on the 200m all-time list.
Safe to say, Gabby Thomas’ equally impressive win in the 200m will feature in the second season of SPRINT.
The American ran 21.83 to stand on the top of the podium and left the Games with an amazing three gold medals, after helping the US women’s 4x100m and 4x400m teams to glory.
Gabby Thomas wins 200m (Getty)
Alfred, who claimed silver behind Gabby Thomas in the 200m, won Olympic 100m gold and secured Saint Lucia’s first ever medal in any sport in the history of the Games.
Her national record of 10.72 in the pouring rain at the Stade de France sparked wild celebrations back on the island and videos of thousands of people watching her 100m glory went viral around the world.
Netflix will now be hoping the global success stories of athletes from the Olympics can help get the sport into new markets and inspire the next generation.
The second season of SPRINT is executively produced by Paul Martin, James Gay-Rees, and Warren Smith at Box to Box Films (Full Swing, Formula 1: Drive to Survive, Tour de France: Unchained) in association with the Olympic Channel.
History Of Gabby Thomas
Gabby Thomas ’19 took off to triumph in the 200 meter run at the 2024 Paris Olympics Tuesday, turning into the main Harvard former student to win an Olympic gold decoration in olympic style events in north of 100 years.
After a solid beginning, Gabby Thomas immediately made strides through the turn and broadened her lead in the last 100 meters, completing in 21.82 seconds, in front of Julien Alfred of Holy person Lucia and partner Brittany Brown.
The success denoted the principal gold for Gabby Thomas, who won a bronze decoration in the 200 meter race and a silver in the 4 x 100 meter transfer for Group USA at the Tokyo Games.
The Northampton, Mass. local was the most loved entering the race. Before the Games, she had invested the quickest effort this season, running a 21.78 at Olympic Preliminaries and a 21.60 at the 2023 USA Titles — an individual best and the fourth quickest time ever in the occasion.
However, gabby thomas was not without contest.
Jamaican sprinter Shericka Jackson has been investing stunning effort throughout recent years — recording an individual best of 21.41 On the planet Sports Titles in 2023 and prevailing over Gabby Thomas for the gold.
Yet, minutes before the main round of hustling, Jackson exited the 200 meter occasion, refering to a calf cramp from prior in the month.
The concentrate unexpectedly limited onto Gabby Thomas and Julien Alfred — who had breezed into a gold decoration in the 100 meter race the other day.
The two ladies drove their warms conveniently — looking cool and gathered as they ran — and continued on toward the elimination rounds the following day.
Gabby Thomas protected a spot in the last with a blasting season of 21.86, putting her at the highest point of the list of competitors during the elimination rounds, yet Alfred won her intensity once more and recorded the subsequent best season of 21.98.
At the point when Alfred and Gabby Thomas arranged Tuesday, they were both prepared to flex their maximum capacity without precedent for the occasion at these Games.
This predominance did not shock any individual who watched Gabby Thomas when she sought the Red. Across her three years at Harvard, Gabby Thomas was named an All-American multiple times. At the 2018 NCAA indoor titles, Gabby Thomas turned into the main competitor in Elite level history to bring home a NCAA running title by setting a then-university record season of 22.38 in the occasion.
During the 2015-16 season, her first year, she was named to the principal group All-America in the 200 meters. Furthermore, she was picked as an individual from the All-Elite level first group for a notable seven occasions that year.
In the wake of setting both Harvard and Elite level records in the outside 100 meters, open air 200 meters, and indoor 60 meters, Gabby Thomas contended in the 2016 USA Track and Field Olympic preliminaries and set 6th generally in the 200 meters.
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