After giving hundreds of laps around athletics tracks around the world, being able to say goodbye to giving the last laps of your life to an entire World Cup, held at home and in front of your public, is something unique that is only available to a legend like Allyson Felix.
His last career was an accumulation of emotions and the public gave him the final salute in the form of shouting as they took the baton to face his seat and the last turn of his life. And fate will have his last career was a 4×400, a distance he has always despised. and that “I’m still not worried, but I think it’s good to challenge yourself and get out of the comfort zone,” he said.
The American relay achieved a dismal bronze medal then face the last straight in the first position. Kennedy Simon was nailed in the final meters and Dominican Fiordaliza Cofil took advantage of it to overtake him and offer gold to his country.
in the back, Dutch Femke Bol completed a large relay at 48 ”85 to achieve the silver medal in-extremis and send a serious warning of what he can do in the 400 hurdles.
With this result, Allyson Felix won her 18th World Championship medal (12 gold, 3 silver and 3 bronze) and finished his long career of 20 seasons at the highest level of the world elite on the podium.
In 2003 he ran the 200m at 22 ”11 and in 2022 he ran it at 22” 40, a sign of his Stakhanovist spirit and his complete dedication to athletics.
“As I got older I started to train smarter. Now I can’t take that much and I need more rest, so I have to do it differently, ”he said.
His history also features his 11 Olympic medals won at five consecutive Olympic Games (Athens 2004, Beijing 2008, London 2012, Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020) and his 22 victories in the Diamond League, a competition he has always considered who is very special and of who also wants to say goodbye to one last participation this year in Rome.
Despite the tracks, she will be remembered for her values and for her defense of the rights of female athletes. In 2019, she sued her sponsor, Nike, for not guaranteeing the income of female athletes who had to take a break from their careers to become mothers and who, as a result, could not show results in a season.
He broke his contract with the American firm and, due to the turmoil that developed, forced the sports firm to change its business policy and offer maternity guarantees. A success that Felix is proud of and that was the beginning of a change in his life.
Because of being a mother, she had to rethink her priorities and athletics was taken behind, so she no longer thought of continuing her life sacrifice until the 2024 Paris Games, “the time will come when you have other priorities in your life and my concern goes by offering the best care to my daughter and not being an absent mother ”, she confesses.
A true reflection of his strong personality and his particular way of being. “I’ve won a lot of titles in my whole life, but the most exciting thing for me is the feeling that people love so much,” the North American champion said.
Source: La Verdad
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