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Seven-time Olympic champion Allyson Felix explains how competing in five Olympic Games allowed her to develop a clock-like system but the now-retired athlete is happy to serve athletics in a different role.
Seven-time Olympic champion Allyson Felix is satisfied that it was the first time in 24 years that she graced the Olympic Games without the all-consuming pressure of being a competitor.
The 39-year-old who also boasts of three silvers and one bronze to her name, one of the greatest U.S. Olympic athletes in history and the most decorated track and field athlete ever, maintained that not being part of this year's USA Olympics team was a totally new experience.
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19:13 - 12.12.2024
'I was embarrassed to show my face' - American sprint legend Allyson Felix reveals the sorrow of missing gold in 2008
Allyson Felix has revealed the emotional turmoil of winning silver in the 2008 Olympics, feeling devastated and letting others down.
"I get hit with the realization that this part of my life is over. The Olympics this year — I was just not part of them, at least not in the way I used to be," Felix told Olympics.com.
Felix was instrumental in one of the best additions to the Paris 2024 Olympic Village: a nursery for those athletes coming with young children, especially mothers, to give them a space to spend time with them.
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21:35 - 20.12.2024
'For me, 2008 was just devastation'- Allyson Felix reflects on Olympic loss to Jamaican Veronica Campbell Brown
Allyson Felix has revealed how losing to Jamaican rival Veronica Campbell Brown for the second consecutive Olympic games broke her.
The decision to come up with a nursery in Paris was necessary to allow mothers bond with their children during the Games and to avoid the lonely feeling, according to Felix.
She shared her own experience saying: “I can still remember arriving at the Tokyo games three years ago: having absolutely no idea how I was supposed to be a new mom and an Olympic athlete, and just feeling so alone.”
Although Felix retired in 2022 after the World Championships held in Oregon, she is yet to get the Olympics cycle out of her system after taking part in five Olympics before hanging up her spikes. "My first time competing in the Games was 20 years ago, in Athens, and when you devote so much of yourself — your time, your focus, your sweat — to this one thing, it’s almost like you develop an internal Olympic clock that’s set to go off every four years,” she insisted.
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