Seven times Olympic champion and 13 times world champion in the 200m, 400m, 4x100m and 4x400m, Allyson Felix announced on Wednesday that the 2022 season will be the last of her immense career.
Allyson Felix decided to say “stop”. The American athlete, a true legend of his sport, put an end to the suspense and announced this Wednesday that the moment to hang up the spikes will come at the end of the 2022 season, marked by the world championships organized in Eugene next July. An announcement that the one who won the trifle of 20 major titles made through a message published on her account Instagram official. “When I was little, they nicknamed me chicken thighs. Never in my wildest dreams would I have imagined making such a career, said the athlete. I have so much gratitude for this sport that has changed my life. I gave everything I had to the race and, for the first time, I’m not sure I still have something to give. I want to say goodbye and thank you to this sport and to the people who have helped shape me, in the only way I know how: by one last lap. »
18-time world medallist and 11-time @Olympics medallist @allysonfelix ?? confirms 2022 will be her final season.
Her announcement ? https://t.co/joqLuHOimH pic.twitter.com/zvczvfuE5n
— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) April 13, 2022
Felix: “It will not be a question of time, but of joy”
Before hoping for one last fireworks display in Eugene, Allyson Felix will have to win his place in the American selection during the selections, organized next June at Hayward Field in Eugene, the stadium which will host the World Championships.. If she succeeds, the native of Los Angeles will have the opportunity to flesh out a little more a legendary prize list, which makes her the most decorated woman in the history of the Olympic Games with seven titles in the 200m, 4x100m and 4x400m. To this is added no less than thirteen world champion titles in the 200m, 400m, 4x100m, 4x400m. A career whose last years have been marked by her fight for the rights of mothers in the professional contextshe who saw her contract with her previous equipment supplier be reduced when she announced that she was pregnant in 2018. ” This season, I will run for women. I will run for a better future for my daughter. I will run for youshe added in her message. This season, it will not be a question of time, but of joy. If you see me on the track this year, I hope to be able to share with you a moment, a memory and my gratitude. “A last lap of honor which will be more than a sporting event for Allyson Felix, who will have marked the history of his sport.