Valarie Allman shows off her 2020 Tokyo Olympics gold medal for discus during an assembly at Silver Creek High School in Longmont on Thursday. Allman’s former teachers and coaches also surprised her with a medal ceremony, as Allman received her medal at a COVID-altered ceremony in an empty stadium. “It really was such an impactful moment in Tokyo during that medal ceremony,” Allman said. “It had been such a blur from when I won, to getting there and then playing the anthem. It really hit me in that second, how badly I wished so many people that were on that journey with me were there. I really wish that we could have celebrated together, so to be back at my high school, and to have so many of those faces there while the band was playing the national anthem, it genuinely brought me to tears.”