For most people, either going to medical school or trying to make a run at Olympic gold would be enough. But Gevvie Stone didn’t see any reason not to chase both dreams at once: The fastest women’s single sculler in the country trained for the Rio Olympics on the Charles River in Cambridge, MA every day while she attended Tufts University School of Medicine. She’s now a doctor who recently won the Olympic trials and is about to leave for Brazil.
She can’t wait.
“Rio has seemed so far in the future for such a long period of time,” Stone said by phone from Cambridge, MA, where she lives and trains.