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The life of Allyson Felix
Brut America
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3/25/2025
She’s the most decorated U.S. track and field athlete in Olympic history.
This is the story of Allyson Felix.
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So truly stay at the top of your game for an extended amount of time.
00:04
That's what we're all trying to do and it is extremely hard.
00:08
I honestly don't really even think about the medal tally or what it means in history.
00:31
I always just take each year as a new year and focus on the goals that I set back and
00:36
then I figure when my career is done I'll look back and kind of appreciate everything.
01:07
I have a passion for kids.
01:10
I have a degree in elementary education so anytime I get to be around kids to see them
01:15
see some great sports stars too is really cool.
01:29
Well for me I really enjoy competing against Veronica.
01:32
I think it's a very healthy rivalry and I know when she's in the race I have to be ready
01:38
and it's just exciting for me.
01:45
To get an individual gold medal would just be so special to me.
01:48
It's been a long time that I've been a silver medalist and so to have another opportunity
01:54
and for things to come together would be huge.
02:03
I guess I had just dreamed about the moment so many times.
02:19
When it actually happened I was just overjoyed.
02:22
I think we went into it thinking about the Olympic record and when we looked up on the
02:27
board and we saw a world record it just blew us away.
02:33
It never gets any easier.
02:42
Once you reach an elite level it is so hard to stay on top.
02:46
Putting in work on days like this where you're exhausted and it's not appreciated because
02:55
people expect you to be at the level that you are.
02:58
They don't see the hard work that goes in day in and day out.
03:02
There's so much that you can do and so many people that you can trust.
03:04
I've always believed in myself.
03:05
I've been a champion.
03:07
She told me that I had a severe case of preeclampsia and that if they didn't act fast, this could
03:34
prove fatal.
03:35
Ten hours later, I was being taken in for an emergency C-section at 32 weeks.
03:41
I kissed my husband goodbye, not knowing what would happen next.
03:45
I learned that black women are nearly four times more likely to die from childbirth than
03:49
white mothers are in the United States.
04:05
But today, I just walked for 30 minutes and it was tough, starting, you know, from the
04:12
bottom.
04:13
I just had major surgery and trying to like get back and even like the littlest things
04:19
are hard.
04:28
I want protection around maternity, if not for myself, for people coming after me.
04:33
Putting really strict requirements on our returning to competition takes away from our
04:40
mothering.
04:41
It can jeopardize our health.
05:33
I think that's what you learn from sport is to keep fighting, to keep pushing.
05:43
And that was really my only option.
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