After salvaging career, DeBues-Stafford betting on herself to run world 1,500 and 5,000m double
It was June 2024 and Gabriela DeBues-Stafford had arrived in Burnaby, B.C., for the Harry Jerome Track Classic. Her hopes to run the 1,500 metres at the Paris Olympics that summer were "dead in the water" but remained alive in the 5,000.


