The sprinter, who won at the Tokyo Olympics 10th and 11th Olympic Medals must participate in the Penn Relays on April 30, as well as at the World Athletics, which will be held in July in Oregon.
Le Monde and AFP
the American sprinter, Allyson Felix, the most titled female athlete of history – Olympic and World Games confused – announced, Wednesday, April 13, that she would play, this year, his last season, before definitively hang up his spikes at 36 years old.
The specialist of 200 and 400 m, seventh Olympic champion, posted a message on Instagram:
When I was little, I was nicknamed “Chicken Thighs”. Never, in my wildest dreams, I would have imagined such a career. I have so much gratitude for this sport that changed my life. I gave everything I had at the race and, for the first time, I’m not sure I still have something to give.
“I mean goodbye and thank you to this sport and the people who helped me to shape me, in the only way I know: by a last track tour”, continued the athlete, thirteen times World champion.
The most decorated female athlete of Olympic history
Allyson Felix, who won at the Tokyo Olympics, in 2021, his 10 e and 11 e (gold on 4 × 400 m and The bronze on 400 m), then becoming the female athlete being mounted most often on a podium, must participate in the Penn Relays on April 30, to run there a 300 m.
But his goal seems to focus on the world athletics who will be held in July in Eugene, Oregon, with a step imposed of the American selections, which will take place at the end of June in the same place.
Felix is the most decorated female athlete in Olympic history, with eleven medals all metals combined, the first glaned at the Athens Games in 2004. She is also the athlete, all kinds confused, having won the More in the world, in total, including seven in individual events and 11 in relays.
FERVENT Mother’s rights defender
His last great competition goes back to the summer of 2021 to the Tokyo Olympics, three years after giving birth to his daughter Camryn in 2018, who had required a caesarean section urgently, after only Trentre-two weeks of pregnancy.
Since then, it has been pushed to become a fervent defender of the rights of mothers at work, after having broken his contract in 2019 with his equipment manufacturer Nike, who had reduced his emoluments during his pregnancy.
“This season, I will run for women. I will run for a better future for my daughter. I’ll run for you,” Assured Felix. “This season, it will not be a question of Chrono, but of joy. If you see me on the track this year, I hope to share with you for a moment, a memory and my gratitude,” she concluded.