Once a 'sickly' child, Olympic medalist Brittany Brown now has a mural at her elementary school
Sprinter Brittany Brown, a bronze medalist at the 2024 Paris Olympics, now has a mural at the Claremont elementary school where she ran to escape childhood hardships.
Olympic sprinter Brittany Brown looks up at a mural of herself April 24 during a ceremony at Vista del Valle Elementary School in Claremont. (Etienne Laurent / For The Times) Brittany Brown looks strong. She looks confident.
She looks capable of achieving her dreams. That's how Brown looks in the mural painted in her honor at Vista del Valle Elementary — and it's how the 31-year-old U. S.
sprinter feels in real life nearly two years after winning a bronze medal in the women's 200-meter at the 2024 Paris Olympics . Read more: Alysa Liu inspires mural that's 'a little rough around the edges, but beautiful at the same time' But that's not always how she felt decades ago during her time as a student at the Claremont school. "I grew up very sickly," Brown told The Times last month while visiting Vista del Valle for a mural unveiling ceremony.
"I had asthma. I had pneumonia, bronchitis. ...
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