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Jenny Simpson, Matthew Centrowitz to race in 5th Avenue Mile

USA TODAY Sports

While many Olympians threw out the first pitch at a baseball game, appeared on late night talk shows and posed on the red carpet, one will mark her return from the Rio Olympic Games with a race down Fifth Avenue.

Jenny Simpson became the first American woman to win an Olympic medal in the 1,500 meters, claiming bronze in Rio on Aug. 16. Eleven days later she ran at a meet in Paris, posting her fastest time this year, 3 minutes, 58.19 seconds.

Instead of going home to Boulder, Colo.